bag of fruit

plural bags of fruit

1. AustraliaslangA suit (clothing).First known use 1924.

   One had spent much time in Queensland. Ah! he said, fingering my jacket. Australian bag of fruit.

   2003, Brian Castro, Shanghai Dancing, page 377

   3 more examples

   Very few of the males wore the bag of fruit. ‘Suits’ were becoming the contemptuous synechdoche now used in reference to members of the executive/managerial elite.

   1995, Overland, numbers 138-141, page 46

   A few nights later Patti dug out my ‘bag of fruit’, but there was no way I was going to wear that.

   2009, Rex Ellis, Go with the Flow, page 43

   The bloke's suit looked made-to-order for someone else's body, not so much a bag of fruit as a crate of it, and his hat band was twice the normal width, more like a bandana.

   2011, Christopher Kremmer, The Chase, unnumbered page