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WktEN_sense_164420   

Instance of: lemon:LexicalSense
Property Value
lemon:definition Statement1
rdf:type lemon:SenseDefinition
lemon:value engAn imaginary or symbolic time when simple people from the bush (ie. country areas) come to the city, likely to be preyed on by tricksters there. A question like What is this – bush week? is thus a protest by the speaker against some obvious prank or ruse. (Reference: Australian Broadcasting Commission News Radio article [http://www.abc.net.au/newsradio/txt/s1512909.htm].)
lemon:value engThere was an attempt at an actual bush festival in Sydney in 1919, the idea apparently then extended to the present figurative use. (Reference: ABC News below.)
uby:definitionType intensionalDefinition
uby:statementType etymology
uby:index 1
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uby:externalReference 310716:0:1
uby:externalSystem Wiktionary sense key
uby:semanticLabel SemanticLabel1
rdf:type uby:SemanticLabel
uby:label informal
uby:type register

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