"Shoot through like a Bondi tram" nghĩa là gì?

"Shoot through like a Bondi tram" = phóng như tàu điện Bondi -> nghĩa là rời đi, chạy khỏi hoặc trốn chạy rất nhanh.

Ví dụ

Meantime, what’s for dinner? “Bread and pullet (gà mái tơ) and duck under the table.” That’s enough now. I have to shoot through like a Bondi tram. Tell 'em I've gone to Gowings.

Melburnians and Sydneysiders know you are getting away quickly if you "shoot through like a Bondi tram" but if you're from other parts maybe you'd use "be off like a bride's nightie" instead.

"Shoot through like a Bondi tram". It was the famous Bondi trams that first opened up the suburb to Sydneysiders in the late 19th century. Richard Taylor, curator of the exhibition "Bondi: A Biography" at the Museum of Sydney, said the trams would pass through the city's poor and densely populated suburbs (ngoại ô).

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