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词组 crook as Rookwood
释义 crook as Rookwood
adjective
(especially in Sydney) very unwell AUSTRALIA
Rhyming phrase referring to Rookwood Cemetery, the main cemetery serving Sydney for many years.
  • In point of established fact sport, I’m as crook as Rookwood!! I reckon I might have to cry Ruth [vomit] pretty soonish!!! — Barry Humphries, Bazza Pulls It Off!, 1971
  • In other words it makes you feel “as crook as Rookwood.” — Nancy Keesing, Lily on the Dustbin, p. 124, 1982
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