dingo's breakfast

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

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

词源

From dingo + -'s + breakfast. First use appears c. 1965 in the writings of K. McKenney.
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