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mandola man Lyr Req: True Blue Bill (from Gene Autry) (28) RE: 10 Jan 98


Hi Joe I followed your link, and it certainly seems to link to Gene Autry, which must centre it in the USA, but "True Blue" is a real Aussie expression, or at least I had never heard it used until I visited Oz.

The Australian, John Williamson, uses and I think he wrote, a song called "True Blue" virtually as his signature tune.

Macquarie (the Australian dictionary) defines it as "unchanging, unwavering, staunch, true", which hardly seems to scratch the surface of the meaning in Oz. It's the best compliment you can ever pay an Aussie.

Here in the UK it takes the second meaning that Macquarie defines, staunchly conservative, although in the UK conservative is "Conservative", the political party, and it is definately not an expression you would use to describe anyone who did not strongly support that party, unless you were really trying to annoy them.

Is the expression used in your part of the world, and what have the Aussies got to say about it.

Cheers, Alan


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