Word: dinkum
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...brought back many wonderful memories of those days. It is great to know we have the Yanks on our side. As we know, when the chips are down, the Yanks and Aussies are one. So we thank you for giving us the great honor of seeing a Dinkum bloke...
...Columbia Records in New York, she has cut a series of briskly selling singles: Matilda, Long Ago Last Summer, Our Language of Love, I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry. Now, with her first album, titled Diana Trask, she is beginning to strike the trade as pretty fair dinkum...
...also involved in the film's best sequence, a glorious piece of frontier humor in which Mitchum enters a shearing contest and takes a terrible licking from an 80-year-old man (Wylie Watson). Stone the crows if, on the whole, the show ain't square dinkum and everybody's cuppa...
Robert Menzies may eloquently summarize the new Australian vigor, but the national motivation of which you speak comes directly from those dinkum "blokes, coves and coots" who see a job to be done and are quietly going about doing it, fortified by a slightly irreverent bush spirit and the best bloody beer in the world...
...Amidst a dinkum welcome to Australia, at the start of a five-month "crusade for Christ," Evangelist Billy Graham was asked whether he thought his revival gatherings would have a lasting effect, responded with disarming realism: "The effects of a bath don't last long, but you need it, and it's good...