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[Aus] Cassell’s Picturesque Australasia I 279: In very sparsely populated country, such as the district of Queensland, known as the Never Never Country presumably because a person, who has once been there, invariably asseverates that he will never, never, on any consideration, go back.
at never-never, the, n.1
[Aus] Cassell’s Picturesque Australasia IV 73: Cloncurry has, to use the mining parlance, duffered out.
at duffer (out), v.
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