Meaning of dingo's breakfast | Babel Free

Definitions

1. No breakfast at all.
   Australia, slang
2. Nothing, especially in a situation where there should be something.
   Australia, slang

Examples

“' Here's yer dinner,' he said, adding with a wink 'I already had me breakfast ' 'What was that?' 'Dingo's breakfast. A piss and a look around.'”

“Some had a 'dingo's breakfast': a piss, a fart and a good look around.”

“"Didn't you have a proper breakfast before you headed off this morning?" He shook his head. "Had me a dingo's breakfast.””

“The next day, after an early dingo's breakfast, which consists only of water, we headed out to chase down the elusive swine.”

“"Don't you want to wash before you leave, or could I make you some breakfast?" Dar asked. "No thanks," Jay replied. "a dingo's breakfast for me. […]"”

“Time for another dingo's breakfast.”

“'You'll get that ache,' she used to say, tapping her fingers in the hollow of my bony ten-year-old ribcage, 'a sort of tightness in the middle of your chest, just behind your breastbone. Don't go fobbing it off as indigestion, my girl—it's your internal barometer warning you that you're about to make a dingo's breakfast out of your life.'”

“"A real 'dinkum Bushie' doesn't give a dingo's breakfast where he sleeps,” said Eddy and the thick lacing of spider's web on the roof of the veranda didn't bother him either.”

“'But when you searched the hills you found nothing.' 'Not a thing. A dingo's breakfast. […]'”

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