Carr Bad (1995) 112: He started spitting in their faces when they came around for the count He coughed up a big yellow goober and scored a ringer. Thompson Texas by the Tail (1994) 209: I’m a ringer, yes, but I’m the straightest player you’ll ever come up against. ‘Toney Betts’ Across the Board 654: Daniel Lamorte also used the Anglo-Saxonized name of Dan Lamont. on Aus.’ in AS XVIII:4 256: With Americans a ringer is a double here he is an expert. Prichard Haxby’s Circus 179: One of the smartest ponies I ever handled this chap’s a ringer all right.īaker ‘Influence of Amer. Downing Digger Dialects 42: ringer - (1) An expert. 9/8: ‘That Tottie’s a ringer.’ ‘No fear’. vii: □ ’Spect you’re a bit o’ a ringer on Scripture? Can I ride? why I rode a ZR filly last week until the hide came off with the saddle, and as for track, I’d track a bug to an aboriginal.’. ‘Why, dog-scratch-me,’ he said with a shriek of anguish, ‘I’m gidyah bred, straight from the Culgoa and no scalawag neither, but a right-down silvertail. One last week nearly fell down when asked if he was a bushman. 13/1: Apparently there are some real ringers offering for the Bushman’s Contingent. An’ that kag was a ringer.īulletin (Sydney) 27 Jan. ![]() Dunne in Schaaf Mr Dooley’s Chicago (1977) 93: They had to sind f’r another kag. Many good judges consider this fine colt the pick of the Handwick bunch.į.P. 6/2: Another ringer is the Abercorn-Tempe colt Toreador. Lawson ‘The God-Forgotten Election’ in Roderick (1967–9) I 110: If ye want to send a ringer to the commin Parly-mint. 6/4: She was a shade more bully about the muzzle than the dog, but a ringer on sight. (b) an expert anything or anyone outstanding or superlative of its/their kind.ĭead Bird (Sydney) 16 Nov. 1959) Up the Cross 128: It was during his third encore that Jeffrey spotted the big ringer the young top shelf shearer. Haylen Big Red 118: Old Jack, big gun, ringer, top of the shed in his day. Masters Back-Country Tales 259: There is a new ringer (fastest shearer) at The Lakes. Cleary Sundowners 138: By the end of the day he wanted to be the ‘ringer’ shearer. ![]() Stories 118: Anybody want to ’ear a song – a real blanky song without funny business? Ever ’eard ‘When Molly Marries the Ringer’? Dorrington ‘Bush Tanqueray’ Twenty Great Aus. 64: Ringer came into use more than half a century ago, being applied to a shearer who could run rings round his fellow workers.Ī. ‘William Hatfield’ Sheepmates 197: One man, the ‘ringer’ of the shed, went away with more money earned in the three weeks than Atherton would draw for his year’s work.īaker Aus. Doone Timely Tips For New Australians 21: RINGER.-The quickest shearer of a gang. ![]() I remember one snag in a north-western (New South Wales) shed, who cooked abominably, but rendered his position tenable by punching the ringer, spreading out the shed pug, and knocking pieces off the wool-presser. Backblocks 91: Concerning fighting cooks the tales are legion. ‘Another Fall of Rain’ in ‘Banjo’ Paterson Old Bush Songs 28: The wringer’s wrist won’t ache so much with pain.Į.S. He has the highest tallies, and they call him ‘a pretty good shearer’. Palmer-Archer Bush Honeymoon 62: We come to a standstill before the ringer of the shed. ![]() Lawson ‘A Rough Shed’ in Roderick (1972) 462: I have fallen so far that it is beneath me to try to climb to the proud position of ‘ringer’ of the shed. 17: Know the bloomin’ half of them would sooner I was dead / For the blanky, blanky ringer takes the cream of every ashed. ‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Robbery Under Arms (1922) 57: Jim was trying to shear sheep and sheep with the ‘ringer’ of the shed. 85: The ‘Ringer’, or fastest shearer of the whole assembly.
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