Botany Bay dozen
Noun
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Noun
Botany Bay dozen
- (Australia, slang, obsolete or historical) 25 lashes, ie. strokes of a whip across a person's back as a punishment.
- 1948, Eleanor Dark, Storm of Time, 1963, Collins, page 58 ↗,
- “Will they be strung up for a Botany Bay dozen like we are if we so much as squeak? Not those fine gentlemen, with their uniforms an' their pockets full o' gold!”
- 1948, Eleanor Dark, Storm of Time, 1963, Collins, page 58 ↗,
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