bag of fruit

bag of fruit

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Noun

bag of fruit (plural bags of fruit)

1. (Australia, rhyming slang) A suit. [From 1924.][1]
   • 1995, Overland, Issues 138-141, page 46,

     Very few of the males wore the bag of fruit. ‘Suits’ were becoming the contemptuous synechdoche now used in reference to members of the executive/managerial elite.

   • 2003, Brian Castro, Shanghai Dancing‎, page 377:

     One had spent much time in Queensland. Ah! he said, fingering my jacket. Australian bag of fruit.

   • 2009, Rex Ellis, Go with the Flow‎, page 43:

     A few nights later Patti dug out my ‘bag of fruit’, but there was no way I was going to wear that.

   • 2011, Christopher Kremmer, The Chase, unnumbered page,

     The bloke's suit looked made-to-order for someone else's body, not so much a bag of fruit as a crate of it, and his hat band was twice the normal width, more like a bandana.

References

1. 2007, Eric Partridge, Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor, The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, page 28.