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flat chat en · ADJ
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(Australia, idiomatic, not-comparable) Extremely busy.
2009, Sean Dooley, Cooking With Baz, Large Print 16pt Edition, page 167,
Except that I was too flat chat to get up and collect it myself so I motioned to Wok as surreptitiously as I could, nodding in the direction of the note lying invitingly on the asphalt. Wok stared back at me uncomprehendingly.
“Sorry, I′m flat chat with work. I don′t see how you can get away until Saturday.”
2007, Joanna Hunt, Jacqui′s Dilemma, page 64:Can you call me back tomorrow, mate? I′m flat chat at the moment.
“Look,” he went on, “I don′t even remember writing anything in the bloody diary, for Christ′s sake. I was flat chat at the time.”
1997, Alexis Wright, Plains of Promise, page 228:
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flat out · flat strap
flat chat en · ADV
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(Australia, idiomatic, not-comparable) At maximum capability, intensity, or speed.
I spun around yet again and took off flat chat.
1998, John Marsden, The Night is for Hunting, unnumbered page:I′m driving flat chat as I cross Green Gully, a nondescript depression in the wide flat plain of western New South Wales.
2012, Chris Hammer, The River: A Journey Through the Murray-Darling Basin, page 166:We had the car going flat chat down the highway when the cops pulled us over.
If there was a radio we'd have it going flat-chat, boy.
1987, Tim Winton, That Eye, The Sky, page 110:
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