Dinky-di

‘Is that dinky-die?’ he asked. ‘You came on to Australia because of me?’

Since Miss McKendry is a dinky-die Aussie with an accent thick as a kangaroo′s tail, she was hexed from the start.

‘I was nearly a doctor,’ she said. ‘Fair dinkum?’ ‘Dinky-di.’

For real value for money there are a couple of dinky-die Australian eating places you should certainly try, though.

“Wonderful! By the time we′re old I'll be able to speak like an Australian.” “No way. You′ll never be dinky die. Your English is much too cultured. Just like you.”

‘Come and meet Sandor and Eva, and here is their son Miklos, all right, Michael he insists on being now, he is dinky-die as they say, a proper Australian, he even forgets how to speak Hungarian, he has just left school like you—[…].’

And if you want my dinky-die advice, you′ll let me take you to the cops.

These men to whom I am referring are “dinky-die” diggers and patriots.