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pig's ear
noun
beer AUSTRALIA
Rhyming slang. Sometimes shortened to “pigs” in UK usage.- PIG’S EAR–Beer. — Gilbert H. Lawson, A Dictionary of Australian Words and Terms, 1924
- Nah, not a pint of pig’s. — Tommy Steele, Cinema, December 1967
- Get some glasses, Flo, we don’t drink Rosy Lee or pig’s ear tonight, we drink champers. — Frank Hardy, The Outcasts of Foolgarah, p. 18, 1971
- — Ryan Aven-Bray, Ridgey Didge Oz Jack Lang, p. 39, 1983
▶ make a pig’s ear; make a pig’s
to bungle; to blunder; to make a mess of something UK, 1954- Mistakes, mess, hash–to make a pig’s. — Colin Strong and Duff Hart-Davis, Fighter Pilot, 1981
- UK makes a pig’s ear out of farm policy. — The Guardian, 1 August 2002
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