on one's Pat Malone

prepositional phrase

Alone, on one's own

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Meanings

prepositional phrase

alternative on one's pat

  1. AustraliaslangAlone, on one's own

    Poor little bludger, he wasn't happy standing there on his Pat Malone[.]

    1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 39
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    "Who's paying?" asked Oscar. "Abo Department?" "Oh, no," said Lace lightly. "I'm doing it on my pat."

    1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter IX, in Capricornia, page 139

    "My daughter worries about me. Isn't that nice," Brian said to the room. "She'd be on her Pat Malone there then, wouldn't she?"

    2004, Jay Verney, Percussion, St Lucia, Queensland: University of Queensland Press, page 298

Origin

Australian rhyming slang; possibly from the ballad Paddy Malone in Australia, recounting the tribulations of an Irish immigrant.

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