bush week

短语

发音

AU

词形变化

bush weeks 复数 bush weeks

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An imagined or symbolic time when assumedly unsophisticated people from the countryside come to the city, likely to be preyed on by tricksters there, or who are unaware of social norms in the city.

    澳大利亚 非正式

    What do you think this is, bush week? (= What do you take me for? / Do you think I'm an idiot?)

    What do you think this is, bush week? (= Why are you not working? / why are you not doing what I asked you to do?)

词源

Apparently from an actual attempt to organise a Bush Festival in Sydney in 1919; the idea then being extended to the present figurative use.

来源：wiktionary