near and far n.
1. a (public house) bar.
![]() | Truth (Sydney) 31 Aug. 8/3: ‘Near & Far’ is Mister Norton / Slang for public house, you see. | |
![]() | Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era. | |
![]() | W. Gippslang Gaz. (Vic.) 10 Aug. 3/7: He got hit with a broken bottle in O’Figgin’s near-and-far. | |
![]() | TAD Lex. (1993) 59: Trying to feel free and happy at the movies as you pipe the cowboy at the near and far (bar) lifting his lip over a rye that’s on the house. | in Zwilling|
![]() | Chicago May: Her Story in Hamilton (1952) 132: Near and far – bar. | |
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![]() | West. Australian (Perth) 12 Apr. 4: What is it we ask for? The answers’ clear, / The near and far for far and near. | |
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![]() | Ridgey-Didge Oz Jack Lang 11: He moved from the near and far and propped at a Cain and Abel. | |
![]() | Sussex University Canoe Club 🌐 So to round the night off, the chief of the battle cruiser let us bo peep in the near and far. Well those of us not in a chalet or peter pan. What a top bushel of coke. | ‘Gower ’98’ on|
![]() | Pete’s Aussie Sl. Home Page 🌐 near and far: a bar. |
2. (Aus.) a motorcar.
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![]() | ‘Whisper All Aussie Dict.’ in Kings Cross Whisper (Sydney) xxxvi 4/2: near and far: Car. | |
![]() | Enderby Outside in Complete Enderby (2002) 365: Got it this morning on the talkbox, in the near-and-far. | |
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