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Thread #41035   Message #594162
Posted By: Ferret
16-Nov-01 - 02:16 PM
Thread Name: Lyr ADD: My Old Man's a Dustman!
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: My Old Man's a Dustman!
I'm sure it's "nana" short for banana east end London slang for an idiot. in the Oxford Dictionary of slang has it as (1941) Australian: from bananas = crazy. In "The Times" A frank admission that he had made a "NANA" of himself.(1974)

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