dingo's breakfast en · NOUN
Etymology
From dingo + -'s + breakfast. First use appears c. 1965 in the writings of K. McKenney.
Meanings
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(Australia, slang) No breakfast at all.
Time for another dingo's breakfast.
2022, Peter FitzSimons, The Battle of Long Tan:"Don't you want to wash before you leave, or could I make you some breakfast?" Dar asked. "No thanks," Jay replied. "a dingo's breakfast for me. […]"
2017, Richard Segal, Sunday Night at the Races:The next day, after an early dingo's breakfast, which consists only of water, we headed out to chase down the elusive swine.
2016, Matt Chadwick, Dirt Classroom, page 39:Some had a 'dingo's breakfast': a piss, a fart and a good look around.
2007, Bernie Matthews, Intractable, page 132:' Here's yer dinner,' he said, adding with a wink 'I already had me breakfast ' 'What was that?' 'Dingo's breakfast. A piss and a look around.'
1965, K. McKeney, Hide-Away Man, page 101:"Didn't you have a proper breakfast before you headed off this morning?" He shook his head. "Had me a dingo's breakfast.”
2014, Lisa A. Olech, Picture Me Naked:
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(Australia, slang) Nothing, especially in a situation where there should be something.
'You'll get that ache,' she used to say, tapping her fingers in the hollow of my bony ten-year-old ribcage, 'a sort of tightness in the middle of your chest, just behind your breastbone. Don't go fobbing it off as indigestion, my girl—it's your internal barometer warning you that you're about to make a dingo's breakfast out of your life.'
2013, Anna Romer, Thornwood House:"A real 'dinkum Bushie' doesn't give a dingo's breakfast where he sleeps,” said Eddy and the thick lacing of spider's web on the roof of the veranda didn't bother him either.
2015, Susan Duxbury, Up the Gum Tree, page 153:'But when you searched the hills you found nothing.' 'Not a thing. A dingo's breakfast. […]'
2017, Julian Lees, The Burnings: