on the bung
English edit
Prepositional phrase edit
- (Australia, slang) Not working properly; kaput.
- 2021, Doddie Weir, Stewart Weir, Doddie's Diary:
- […] and on the way back home on the train, drinking white wine out of plastic cups, I had to take a call from someone whose sewage system had gone on the bung.
References edit
- Tony Thorne (2014) “on the bung”, in Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, 4th edition, London, […]: Bloomsbury