Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Halley’s comet n.

[rhy. sl.]

(Aus.) vomit.

[Aus]G. Seal Lingo 89: Other examples of this process include: [...] halley’s comet vomit; harvey drew spew (vomit); henry berry sherry; jimmy grant immigrant, used in New Zealand since at least the 1840s and recorded in Australia in the l850s.