six bob a day tourist
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Alternative forms
- five bob a day tourist (rare)
- six-bob-a-day tourist
Etymology
A reference to the soldiers′ pay of six shillings a day.
Pronunciation
Audio (General Australian): (file)
Noun
six bob a day tourist (plural six bob a day tourists)
- (Australia, historical, slang) An Australian soldier serving in World War I, especially a volunteer.
- 1956, F. Eric Hitchins, Tangled Skeins: A Historic Survey of Australian Wool Marketing, page 81:
- On brief leaves, as a “six-bob-a-day tourist” during World War I, one had learned to love London, […] .
- 1985, Janet Morice, editor, Six Bob a Day Tourist, Penguin, →ISBN:
- 1990, Bill Gammage, The Broken Years: Australian soldiers in the Great War, page 11:
- He professed no sense of right, no statement of belief: he was a ‘six bob a day tourist’, and even in that age of conviction he was not alone.
Derived terms
- tourist (abbreviated form also used during WWII)
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