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underground mutton


a rabbit: Fancy catching some underground mutton for dinner.


Contributor's comments: It meant rabbits in Victoria.

Contributor's comments: Also the same in WA.

Contributor's comments: My father & grandfather, from central western NSW, always refer to rabbits as underground mutton. "We wouldn't 've got through the war if it weren't for undagroun' mutton." Granpa, born 1915

Contributor's comments: This is also used by my grandparents in Broken Hill.

Contributor's comments: A butcher here in Brisbane uses that term to describe rabbits.

Contributor's comments: rabbit meat: "We're goin' shootin' underground mutton."

Contributor's comments: 'Underground mutton was a commonly used phrase for rabbit meat in South Gippsland when I was growing up there in the 50s and 60s.