The term derives from the fact that the play in this game is characterised by frequent exchanges of long and high kicks. It would put the acid on putative challengers and catch them out if they are not ready.Ī jocular (and frequently derisive) name for Australian Rules Football (or Aussie Rules as it is popularly called). When the stewards 'put the acid on' the riders it was found that only one exhibit in a very big field carried a boy who was not over ten years old.Ģ015 Australian (Sydney) 6 February: One option would be to skip the spill motion and go directly to a call for candidates for the leadership. The Australian idiom emerged in the early 20th century and is still heard today.ġ903 Sydney Stock and Station Journal 9 October: In the class for ponies under 13 hands there was a condition that the riders should be under ten years of age. Acid test is also used figuratively to refer to a severe or conclusive test. This idiom is derived from acid test which is a test for gold or other precious metal, usually using nitric acid. to be successful in the exertion of such pressure. To exert a pressure that is difficult to resist to exert such pressure on (a person, etc.), to pressure (someone) for a favour etc. Hence 2, noun A particularly sterile piece of academic writing.' The evidence has become less frequent in recent years.ġ993 Age (Melbourne) 24 December: The way such festivals bring together writers, publishers and accas, making them all accountable to the reader - the audience - gives them real value.
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The editor of Meanjin, Jim Davidson, adds a footnote: 'acca (slightly derogatory) 1, noun An academic rather than an intellectual, particularly adept at manipulating trendiologies, usually with full scholarly apparatus. The abbreviation first appears in Meanjin (Melbourne, 1977), where Canberra historian Ken Inglis has an article titled 'Accas and Ockers: Australia's New Dictionaries'. We trust that Edmund Weiner and John Simpson did not take a citation, since the Australian abbreviation of academic is not acco but acca (sometimes spelt acker). I hoped, after I left, they would enter it on one of their little slips and add it to their gigantic compost heap - a candidate for admission to the next edition. I asked if they were familiar with the Oz usage 'acco', meaning 'academic'. But not all -o words were Australian, said Simpson : eg 'aggro' and 'cheapo'. Australians used the -o suffix a lot, he reflected. Army Corps of Engineers’s project manager for the complex.Michael Davie in 'Going from A to Z forever' (an article on the 2nd edition of the Oxford English Dictionary), Age, Saturday Extra, 1 April 1989, writes of his visit to the dictionary section of Oxford University Press:īefore I left, Weiner said he remembered how baffled he had been the first time he heard an Australian talk about the 'arvo'. “This station is designed to withstand almost everything,” including 140mph winds and runaway barges, says Tim Connell, the U.S. And unlike the city’s notorious levees, the WCC won’t break when residents need it most. Then they’ll fire up the world’s largest pumping station, which pulls 150,000 gallons of floodwater per second. First, operators will shut the 32-foot-tall, 225-foot-wide metal gates to block the surge. When a major storm threatens, the waterway’s new West Closure Complex will mount a two-point defense. The Gulf Intracoastal Waterway is one of the city’s most trafficked industrial waterways, but it provides a perfect path from the Gulf for a 16-foot storm surge to flood homes and businesses. The $500-million station-the newest installment of a $14-billion federal project to fortify the Big Easy against the type of fierce storm the city sees once in 100 years-will protect the 240,000 residents living in New Orleans, a high-risk flood area because of its nearby shipping canals. Army Corps of Engineers started construction on a barrier that can block a 16-foot swell blown in from the Gulf and a massive pumping station that will blast floodwaters back to sea. New Orleans sits smack dab between the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Pontchartrain, and when a hurricane comes rolling in, those bodies of water tend to spill into the streets.
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