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shot through like a Bondi tram

shot through like a Bondi tram is the simple past and past participle of shoot through like a Bondi tram.

Meaning of shoot through like a Bondi tram

Verb

shoot through like a Bondi tram (third-person singular simple present shoots through like a Bondi tram, present participle shooting through like a Bondi tram, simple past and past participle shot through like a Bondi tram)

  1. (Australia, colloquial, informal, simile) To leave in haste.
    • […] then he gets back into his jeep says good luck boys and shoots through like a Bondi tram.1945 April, John Scarlett, censored dispatch quoted in 2011, Fay Anderson, Richard Trembath, Witnesses to War: The History of Australian Conflict Reporting, Melbourne University Press, page 197

Questions about shot through like a Bondi tram

What is shot through like a Bondi tram the simple past and past participle of?
Shot through like a Bondi tram is the simple past and past participle of shoot through like a Bondi tram.

Words near shot through like a Bondi tram in the dictionary

  1. shot the messenger
  2. shot the messenger boy
  3. shot the moon
  4. shot the shit
  5. shot through
  6. shot through like a Bondi tram
  7. shot through with
  8. shot to nothing
  9. shot tower
  10. shot towers
  11. shot trouble

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