CHRISTMAS ATTRACTION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 December 1938, Page 4

CHRISTMAS ATTRACTION

GRACIE FIELDS AT THE STATE.

“We're Going to be Rich,” the 20th Century-Fox hit brings Victor McLaglen and Gracie Fields to the State Theatre on Friday week as the grand Christmas attraction.

Australia is in history and national spirit very closely related to. the United States. Settled as both were by the English forefathers within a generation of each other, the language has a basic similarity—but the slang has, in each nation, developed independently. Here are the relative slang words of Australia and the United States, the Australian words are given first with .he American in parentheses:—Toss in the Alley (Give up the Ghost); Barmy (Silly, Screwy); Bonzer, Bosker (Swell. Superlative); Brown (Copper Coin); Chuck Off (Chaff, Razz); Cliner (Young girl, Broad,; Cobber (Close friend,. Pal); Crack Hardy (Suffer in Silence)); Fair Do (Swell Job; Well Done); Crool the Pitch (Gum the Works; Spoil); Dinkum, Dinkum Oil (Straight Dope); Dizzy Limit (The Tops, Acme); Done Me Luck (Out of Luck); Furphy (Idle Rumour, the Bunk): The Glarssy (Cold Shoulder); Imshee (Begone. Scram); Josser (Simpleton, a Sap); Nark (Spoilsport, wet olanket); Pull, to take a (to Quit, Lay

Off); Run the Rabbit (Rush the Growler); To Sky the Rag (Toss in the Towel); Shickered (Drunk. Plastered); Stake Me Divvy (Bet My Shirt); Stoush (Punch, bash, wallop); On the Vag (On the Bum, Vagrant); Tuckec Away (Interred, Laid Away); To Ge< Wet (Incensed, to Burn Up).