Meanings
dodgy brothers1
- pluralplural onlyAlternative letter-case form of Dodgy Brothers.
comparative more dodgy brothers · superlative most dodgy brothers
- Alternative letter-case form of Dodgy Brothers.
Dodgy Brothers2
- Australiainformalpluralplural onlyA dishonest or unreliable company or group of people.
1 more example
William Angliss students under higher education visas will apply for a transfer and go to a school where they can do cookery packaged with a Bachelor of Business. They have no intention, from what we've heard, of going on to Bachelor of Business; it's just to get that cookery qualification. Now, the reason why William Angliss doesn't package cookery with bachelor degrees is that you don't require a bachelor degree to be a cook or a chef […] However, if onshore they want to transfer and not change their visa status, they are just packaged, as I said, through to 'Dodgy Brothers' and up to higher education.
2023 April 18, Bruce Banfield, “Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade – 18/04/2023 – Inquiry into Tourism and Australia's International Education”, in Official Committee Hansard (Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade), page 45
comparative more Dodgy Brothers · superlative most Dodgy Brothers
Origin
From characters the Dodgey Brothers (a pair of unscrupulous businessmen played by Stephen Blackburn and Geoff Brooks) in the 1980s and '90s Australian sketch comedy series Australia You're Standing In It and Fast Forward. The brothers' name is a homophone of the Australian term "dodgy" (meaning dishonest or unreliable), and the spelling of the name in figurative uses typically matches the slang term rather than the original spelling.
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dodgy brothers. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dodgy%20brothers
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