Meaning of Dad and Dave | Babel Free

Definitions

Remote rural farmers resembling the characters in Steele Rudd's "Dad and Dave" stories, especially seen as unsophisticated.

Australia, colloquial, historical

Examples

“In vain I looked for the types I sought—old slop clothes, wheat growing out of their ears, real old Dads and Daves.”

“The earlier lure for the pioneering of land has gone, and I think so far as Australians and Britishers are concerned there are not very many people aspiring to be "Dads" and "Daves".”

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