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词组 never-never
释义 never-never
noun
  1. hire purchase UK
    A suggestion that you will never, never pay off your debts, with an ironic reference to J.M. Barrie (1860–1937)’s idealised home for Peter Pan, “Never Never Land”, first realised in 1904.
    • [Y]our rotten little cars on the never-never. — John Peter Jones, Feather Pluckers, p. 156, 1964
    • Worried when he didn’t have a TV set; then bought one on the never-never and worried about meeting the payments. — Frank Hardy, The Yarns of Billy Borker, p. 87, 1965
    • — Frank Hardy, The Outcasts of Foolgarah, p. 53, 1971
  2. the remote regions of interior Australia AUSTRALIA, 1833
    Origin unknown. Sometimes upper case.
    • NEVER-NEVER–The outback. — Gilbert H. Lawson, A Dictionary of Australian Words and Terms, 1924
    • — Patsy Adam-Smith, Folklore of the Australian Railwaymen, p. 90, 1969
    • I followed the tracks out into the Never-Never towards Beetaloo. — Herb Wharton, Cattle Camp, p. 11, 1994
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