Meanings
plural six bob a day tourists · alternative five bob a day tourist · alternative six-bob-a-day tourist
- AustraliahistoricalslangAn Australian soldier serving in World War I, especially a volunteer.
On brief leaves, as a “six-bob-a-day tourist” during World War I, one had learned to love London,[…].
1956, F. Eric Hitchins, Tangled Skeins: A Historic Survey of Australian Wool Marketing, page 811 more example
He professed no sense of right, no statement of belief: he was a ‘six bob a day tourist’, and even in that age of conviction he was not alone.
1990, Bill Gammage, The Broken Years: Australian soldiers in the Great War, page 11
Origin
A reference to the soldiers′ pay of six shillings a day.
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