Meaning of do a perish | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To suffer privation or hardship of any kind.
   Australia, slang
2. To die, especially to die of thirst; to perish.
   Australia, slang

Examples

“"I've had ten years of it, scratching enough out of it to dress and feed myself when the going's good and sharing a room with a girl friend or pigging it in some cheap boarding-house, and doing a perish when I've been out of a job. I've got to the point where I can't stick it any longer."”

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