(Australia, attributive) A tax avoidance scheme from the 1970s.
(Australia, attributive) A tax avoidance scheme from the 1970s.
The 'bottom of the harbour' scheme was so named because a company once stripped of its assets, was dumped and, like a body in a cement suit, sank never to be seen again.
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Aussie and Kiwi vocabulary — bogan, daggy, brekkie, sheila, bach, jandals — the whole Antipodean lexicon, including outback dialect, surf and beach culture, and Sydney/Melbourne street slang.
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(British, Ireland, colloquial) In an underhand way, sneakily; unofficially, particularly with regard to payment or tax avoidance.
(chiefly, British, slang, humorous) The national lottery.
(Australia, slang, obsolete, pejorative) Any illness feigned by convicts to avoid being sent to Botany Bay.
Australian slang for defecating, using the spatial metaphor of backing a vehicle out of a space. Somewhat euphemistic compared to more direct terms, but the vehicle imagery makes it simultaneously vivid and deniable. Casual in register and typically used among friends rather than in polite or mixed company. A characteristic example of Australian slang's preference for unexpected metaphors. The slang falls into the Australian tradition of applying mundane mechanical metaphors to bodily functions for deadpan comic effect.
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