bush week

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An imagined or symbolic time when assumedly unsophisticated people from the countryside come to the city, likely to be preyed on by tricksters there, or who are unaware of social norms in the city. Australia,informal
    — What do you think this is, bush week? (= What do you take me for? / Do you think I'm an idiot?)

词形变化

bush weeks plural

词源

Apparently from an actual attempt to organise a Bush Festival in Sydney in 1919; the idea then being extended to the present figurative use.
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