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right up your ginger

English translation: immediately shouting words of anger and displeasure

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English term or phrase:right up your ginger
Selected answer:immediately shouting words of anger and displeasure
Entered by: S.J

18:15 May 3, 2021
English language (monolingual) [Non-PRO]
General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters / right up your ginger
English term or phrase: right up your ginger
- What if you were sort of tired after the first 45 seconds of it?
- They'd be right up your ginger. they used to say. Muova ti!

They are talking about cane cutters. The guy just give it a crack. The material is Australian.

Thanks in advance,
S.J
Canada
Local time: 10:29
immediately shouting words of anger and displeasure
Explanation:
Ginger is a word for butt or ass in Australia.
ginger (abbreviation of ginger ale, rhyming slang for ‘tail’) First recorded in 1955.
Stone the crows! I’m sitting here with fifty thousand bags of flour under my ginger.
http://ozwords.org/?p=4323

The meaning of "right up your ginger" may be similar to that of the idiom, "shove it up your ass", which means an exclamation of extreme anger, disgust, hatred; often accompanied by an obscene gesture.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shove_it_up_your_ass
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Kiet Bach
United States
Local time: 07:29
Grading comment
Thank you.
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immediately shouting words of anger and displeasure


Explanation:
Ginger is a word for butt or ass in Australia.
ginger (abbreviation of ginger ale, rhyming slang for ‘tail’) First recorded in 1955.
Stone the crows! I’m sitting here with fifty thousand bags of flour under my ginger.
http://ozwords.org/?p=4323

The meaning of "right up your ginger" may be similar to that of the idiom, "shove it up your ass", which means an exclamation of extreme anger, disgust, hatred; often accompanied by an obscene gesture.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shove_it_up_your_ass

Kiet Bach
United States
Local time: 07:29
Native speaker of: Native in ChineseChinese
PRO pts in category: 8
Grading comment
Thank you.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  philgoddard: But nothing to do with "shove it up your ass". It means they'd pounce on you, and tell you to hurry up.
3 hrs
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agree  Mark Robertson: I agree with Phil
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agree  Brent Sørensen
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