- like a bandicoot on a burnt ridge
- Australian Slanglonely and vulnerable.
English dialects glossary. 2013.
like a bandicoot on a burnt ridge
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Like a bandicoot on a burnt ridge — lonely … Dictionary of Australian slang
bandicoot — /ˈbændikut / (say bandeekooht) noun 1. any of various small, omnivorous, somewhat rat like Australian and New Guinean marsupials of the families Paramelidae and Peroryctidea. 2. any of the very large rats of the genus Bandicota, of India and Sri… …
Bandicoot — miserable as a bandicoot Extremely unhappy. Bandicoots are small marsupials with long faces, and have been given a role in Australian English in similes that suggest unhappiness or some kind of deprivation. The expression miserable as a bandicoot … Australian idioms
