Botany Bay dozen
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Botany Bay dozen (plural Botany Bay dozens)
- (Australia, slang, obsolete or historical) 25 lashes, ie. strokes of a whip across a person's back as a punishment. [1]
- 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!”
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- Robert Hughes, The Fatal Shore, 1987, paperback 1996 →ISBN, chapter 12.
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