КНИГИ НА АНГЛИЙСКИЙ ЯЗЫКЕ, ИМЕЮЩЕЕ ОТНОШЕНИЕ К СЛОВУ «STARVE THE BARDIES!»
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English: ...
See barred dice. Bardia Bill. The 6-inch gun that, in 1941, bombarded Tobruk
pretty regularly: Services: 1941, then ob. (Granville.) Cf. Asiatic Annie. bardies.
See starve the bardies. bare-belly. 'A sheep without wool on its belly or inner
portions ...
Eric Partridge, Paul Beale,
1984
Here is the passage: Well, starve the bardies! Any poor choom who takes a squiz
at the new Pocket Oxford Dictionary doesn't have a Buckley's. Talk about
stonkering the poms; fossick about in the last thirty pages and you'll want to drop
your ...
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Australian Aboriginal words in English: their origin and meaning
There is an idiom, starve the bardies! which, like 'stone the crows' or 'starve the
lizards', is an exclamation of surprise or disgust. bogong /botjgon/ Formerly
bugong. Now usually called bogong moth. [Ngarigo, which was spoken from ...
Robert M. W. Dixon, William Stanley Ransom, Mandy Thomas,
1990
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Chambers Pardon My English!
... in seafaring actuality ('timbers' refers to the planks making up a wooden ship)
snakes alive the origin of this apparently meaningless expression is unknown
starve the bardies an Australian expression (bardies are a kind of insect grub)
stone ...
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Merry Gentlemen and One Lady
... of time here in Brisbane, conferring with "El Supremo," General Mac- Arthur. My
day brightened: I could see some grand slams ahead. I was telling Kip about my
assignment when I heard behind me a loud, hoarse voice: "Starve the bardies ...
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Ridge and the River: A Taut Account of Jungle Warfare
"Australian war Classic Presented by E.E.(Weary) Dunlop.
T. A. G. Hungerford,
2003