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strike me up a gum-tree!
used for expressing great surprise AUSTRALIA- “Strike me up a gum-tree!” Splinter suggested in an ejaculatory tone, “you don’t mean a fulla named Meredith?” — J.E. MacDonnell, Don’t Gimme the Ships, p. 75, 1960
- “[Y]ou’ll suddenly wake up one bright morning to find he’s slipped a swiftie over you, has the whole game sewn up, and all you slowcoaches up a gum tree telling the crows he can’t do it.” — Dymphna Cusack, Picnic Races, p. 70, 1962
- It was simply: “Gawd strike me dead.” It was an expression I was to hear several times a day from then onward, varied according to how the pleader desired to be struck. It might be pink, or up a gum tree, or it might be hooray. — Harold Lewis, Crow On A Barbed Wire Fence, p. 2, 1973
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