“Political columnist Niki Savva is copping criticism after using the expression ‘killed a Chinaman’ on television,” Buzzfeed, the politics website for the pre-pubescent, reports today after this morning’s Insiders.
“According to The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English,” Buzzfeed continues, “‘must have killed a Chinaman’ is a colonial Australian expression for back luck.”
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