Meaning of shoot through like a Bondi tram | Babel Free

Definitions

To leave in haste.

Australia, colloquial, informal

Examples

“1945 April, John Scarlett, censored dispatch quoted in 2011, Fay Anderson, Richard Trembath, Witnesses to War: The History of Australian Conflict Reporting, Melbourne University Press, page 197, […] then he gets back into his jeep says good luck boys and shoots through like a Bondi tram.”

“When it came to the real thing, panic took over and the routine shot through like a Bondi tram, to be replaced by a three-ring circus.”

“She had put the wind up them, called them “un-Australian”, and took to them with her parasol and they shot through like a Bondi tram, one of the men with a gash on his neck that he won′t quickly forget.”

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