do (one's) dash

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do (one's) dash

To do something to the fullest extent that one can. Primarily heard in Australia. Whew, I've done my dash! Can we just rest for a minute?

do your dash

exhaust your energies or chances. Australian informal

1973 Chester Eagle Who Could Love the Nightingale? ‘Keep going,’ she said. ‘Keep going.’ ‘I've done my dash, Marg, in every sense of the words.’

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"Provided you're prepared to keep growing and developing as coaches, as management staff and players," he said, by way of disputing that after eight years as an assistant coach, he'd have done his dash.

Gatland has strong case for All Blacks job - NZ columnist; In his native New Zealand, rugby writers are starting to lick their lips at the prospect of the man who has won a Lions Test campaign, two Grand Slams and two Heineken Cups taking charge of the men in black. Here, New Zealand Herald columnist Gregor Paul makes the case for the Wales coach ahead of other leading contenders for the job like John Kirwan, Todd Blackadder and David Rennie

is a worker, not in spot shaft And the clot And you might be right: as far as this season goes, we in the Friday Lions horse-owning syndicate have, as they say at the track, done our dough and our gallant nag Tweedo Paradise has done his dash.