send bush

Definitions

To send away into the bush (etymology 3)

Australia, transitive

Examples

“Being unable to bring⟳ him up to town because the river was in flood⟳ at the time, he had given him a good hiding and sent him bush.”

“1962, William Leonard Joy, The Birth of a Nation: The Story of Early Australia, Specially Commissioned by the Sunday Telegraph, Sydney, NSW, Shakespeare Head Press⟳, p. 136 https://books.google.ca/books?id=P4UrAAAAIAAJ&q=%22send⟳+him+bush%22+OR+%22send⟳+them+bush%22+OR+%22sent+him+bush%22+OR+%22sent+them+bush%22+-george+-president&dq=%22send⟳+him+bush%22+OR+%22send⟳+them+bush%22+OR+%22sent+him+bush%22+OR+%22sent+them+bush%22+-george+-president&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiMvcm88PrMAhUMwGMKHee0BOYQ6AEILDAD Faced with famine, he armed the best shots among his convicts and sent them bush to hunt kangaroos and emus. He thus started a menace that plagued the colony for years, for, when supplies were adequate, the kangaroo hunters refused to resume their servitude in town.”

“1992, Bryan Clark, Yammatji: Aboriginal Memories of the Gascoyne, Hesperian Press⟳, p. 119 https://books.google.ca/books?id=C_UXAQAAMAAJ&q=%22sent+bush%22+-george+-president&dq=%22sent+bush%22+-george+-president&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjk4IzP7_rMAhUBXGMKHVB5D6sQ6AEI0AMwVg The mustering teams consisted of about twenty men. They were sent bush for up to six months, forbidden to return⟳ to the precincts of the homestead unless summoned.”

“But from Aurukun, where all the children were sent bush with their parents as a war precaution, MacKenzie feared that ready availability of cash would spell⟳ the end⟳ for traditional skills.”

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