Meaning of bag of fruit | Babel Free

Definitions

A suit (clothing).

Australia, slang

Examples

“Very few of the males wore the bag of fruit. ‘Suits’ were becoming the contemptuous synechdoche now used in reference to members of the executive/managerial elite.”

“One had spent much time in Queensland. Ah! he said, fingering my jacket. Australian bag of fruit.”

“A few nights later Patti dug out my ‘bag of fruit’, but there was no way I was going to wear⟳ that.”

“The bloke's suit⟳ looked made-to-order for someone else's body, not so much a bag of fruit as a crate of it, and his hat band was twice the normal width, more like⟳ a bandana.”

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