Green’s Dictionary of Slang

pat malone n.

In phrases

on one’s pat (malone) (adj.) (also on one’s mike malone) [rhy. sl.]

(Aus./UK) alone, on one’s own.

1904		Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 24 Aug. 2/3: Sam Rowley, ‘The Little Man with the Big Voice,’ has taken the King’s Hall. Newcastle, on his Pat Malone.
1905		Truth (Perth) 22 Apr. 7/4: If the devvil saw them faces / He’d be off upon his pat.
1906		Salt Lake Herald (UT) 26 Mar. 7/1: N.C.A. Says Every Pedal-Pusher Must get out and Win on His ‘Pat’.
1908		Bulletin (Sydney) 13 Aug. 14/1: ‘Pass!’ [...] ‘I’m on me pat!’ [...] ‘Ace!’ (Bang!) ‘Butcher!’ (Thump!) ‘Nine!’ (Wallop!).
1916		C.J. Dennis ‘Rabbits’ in Moods of Ginger Mick 98: But, torkin’ straight, the Janes ’as done their bit. / I’d like to ’ug the lot, orl on me pat!
1924		G.H. Lawson Dict. of Aus. Words And Terms 🌐 PAT, ON ONE’S – Acting alone.
1927		‘Syd. Swagman’ ‘Drunks’ in Wannan Folklore of Aus. Pub (1972) 84: Tough drunks, rough drunks, dirty drunks and fat, / Drunks that shicker with the flies and shicker on their pat.
1938		X. Herbert Capricornia (1939) 115: ‘Who’s paying? [...] Abo Department?’ ‘No [...] I’m doing it on my pat.’.
1939		J. Campbell Babe is Wise 193: I can’t imagine a Rudolph Valentino like you going on bus-rides on a chillsome night on your Pat Malone.
1941		F. Sargeson ‘That Summer’ in Coll. Stories (1965) 162: But being all on my pat up there that evening somehow gave me the dingbats properly.
1946		St. Vincent Troubridge ‘Some Notes on Rhyming Argot’ in AS XXI:1 Feb. 47: pat malone. Alone. (Australian, rare.) Agreed. The English equivalent is Mike Malone, also commonly clipped back to on one’s mike, and also rare.
1955		D. Niland Shiralee 122: ‘Come far?’ ‘Caidmurra.’ ‘On your pat?’.
1959		C. MacInnes Absolute Beginners 157: It’s a hard task [...] to try to find out the truth about it [i.e. the world] on your Pat Malone.
1965		F.J. Hardy Yarns of Billy Borker 140: He’s there on his Pat Malone, see, talking to himself, silly as a two-bob watch.
1969		L. Hadow Full Cycle 139: There’s that pot-bellied muck-up that calls himself a winchman. Do I hate his guts! Muckin’ shame we can’t do the whole muckin’ issue on our pat.
1974		D. Ireland Burn 95: Now we’re on our Pat Malone here they think they can put the boot in.
1977		(con. 1941) R. Beilby Gunner 135: You on ya pat, are ya?
1983		J. Byrell (con. 1959) Up the Cross 21: He lobbed all on his pat.
1983		R. Aven-Bray Ridgey-Didge Oz Jack Lang 10: Nah, she’s apples china, I’d rather prop on me Pat Malone. I’m only in for a quick gargle.
1988		McGill Dict. of Kiwi Sl. 82/2: on one’s pat single-handed or alone, short for rhyming slang ‘on one’s Pat Malone / alone’ or on your ‘own’.
1993		K. Lette Foetal Attraction (1994) 215: They’ll get handsomely paid for it too ... While you’re left up the spout on your pat malone.
2002		D. Shaw ‘Dead Beard’ at www.asstr.org 🌐 Anyway, I’m sitting there with a glass of bum and stroke, having a tumble down the sink, when a mother of pearl on her pat malone comes alongside.
2007		D. McDonald Luck in the Greater West (2008) 12: You’ll have ta come on ya Pat Malone.
2021		Betoota-isms 249: ‘Saw Robbie hammering the pokies last night on his Pat Malone’.