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Old 09-26-2010, 12:05 PM   #153
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Originally Posted by GlenBarrington View Post
(Never heard, or read of, the 'rack off' version).
There was a pop song doing the rounds when I was a kid, about a sheila (and her friends) outside a milk bar fending off the clumsy attempts a yob was making at chatting her up, and right now I can only remember the first line of the chorus, which went "Rack off Normie, you and yer mates!"

It may well be a solely Aussie, or Aussie+Kiwi, phrase, for all I know.

(But I think most Aussies these days would simply say what you'd say, Glen. Aussie English is disappearing very rapidly.)

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