Never-never (Noun)
Meaning 1
Installment plan; "we bought a car on the never-never".
Classification
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession.
Examples
- We bought a car on the never-never and now we're struggling to make the monthly payments.
- She couldn't afford the designer handbag so she put it on the never-never and hoped her salary would increase soon.
- The family's new TV was bought on the never-never, with a payment plan that would take three years to complete.
- He put the laptop on the never-never, thinking he could afford the monthly installments, but soon realized it was a mistake.
- The couple's furniture was all bought on the never-never, and they were still paying it off years after they got married.
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Meaning 2
The remote outback of Australia; unpopulated desert country.
Classification
Nouns denoting spatial position.
Examples
- The term 'never-never' evoked images of desolate red earth and extreme temperatures in the Australian outback.
- The elderly stockman had spent his entire life traversing the vast, uninhabited expanses of the never-never in search of stray cattle.
- For generations, the 'never-never' had remained a mysterious and largely unexplored corner of the Australian continent.
- Those who ventured into the never-never returned with tales of unrelenting sun and blistering heat that could shatter even the sturdiest of wills.
- Deep within the never-never, an old windmill stood as a haunting testament to the long-abandoned dreams of early settlers.