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Buckley's

Date

2011

Authors

Moore, K Bruce

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Oxford University Press

Abstract

Buckley's or Buckley's chance are the surviving variants of a phrase that once also existed in the forms Buckley's hope and Buckley's show. Where does the phrase come from? Some theories were canvassed in the October 2000 edition of Ozwords. There are really only two credible possibilities, and these were spelt out by Sidney Baker in 1945 in The Australian Language.

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/263942

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ANU Research Publications

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Ozwords

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Restricted until

2099-01-31

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