Three Ones Hotel n.
(Aus.) Nelson’s Column, Trafalgar Square, London.
Digger Dialects 49: three i’s hotel — The Nelson Monument, in Trafalgar Square, London. | ||
(con. WWI) Gloss. Sl. [...] in the A.I.F. 1921–1924 (rev. t/s) n.p.: the three ones. A reference to the statue of Nelson in Trafalgar Square. The Square was known to Australians as a favorite meeting place; and called the Three Ones Hotel. The ‘ones’ are Nelson’s one arm, one eye and one posterior orifice. | ||
[ | 1985 (1980) 208: Trafalgar Square [...] high in air, the one-one-eyed, one-armed (and, as the vulgar had it, one arsed) hero]. |