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tin kettling
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(Expression) a surprise celebration; an old Aussie custom of banging tin pots & kettles together, and/or throwing them up onto the roof of a newlywed couple, (or new parents, or someone newly into their home) by friends and neighbours, in order to give them one hell of a welcome into their new home.Usage: A fortnight after we arrived home with the little one half the town turned up one Sunday and gave us a tin kettling!
(Expression) A surprise celebration - An old Aussie custom of banging tin pots & kettles together, and/or throwing them up onto the roof, of a newly wed couple, (or someone newly into their home) by friends and neighbours in order to give them one hell of a welcome into their new home.
Usage: Let's all sneak over to Norm & Kim's tonight & give them a tin kettling.
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