‘A barbie in the arvo always sounds like a great plan and not in the slightest bit pretentious if suggested by an Australian.’
‘So after a rather wearing morning I only had the arvo to make the final arrangements.’
‘Milder conditions prevailed last Saturday with the greens recovering at a great rate and a north-easterly springing up in the arvo, making good scores a little tougher.’
‘Brother got home in the arvo… pretty much kicked me off the computers…’
‘This arvo I made up a CD of all the songs she'd like that have been released in the last 4 months, and she will not have heard before.’
‘Sunday arvo saw the girls head off to the Grandparent's place for the week.’
‘Kev and I crawl out of my bed at some point in the arvo, I have no idea whether I have been sleeping.’
‘Sunday arvo was spent with the boys watching a few cracking games of footy on the telly.’
‘Don't forget to come to the Xmas party on Xmas eve at three in the arvo at the Community Hall.’
‘Because today's a public holiday, Sunday night was without that familiar cramp in the neck from thinking about Monday's workload, even though I actually have to work later in the arvo today.’
‘Rugby I can understand - it's fairly exciting, everyone can play it, you can take the kids down the park of a Sunday arvo and throw the ball around.’
‘I'd go for a kayaking arvo while he'd pore over camera magazines.’
‘And how is it that I spent Friday night - Tuesday morning with him, and it's now Tuesday arvo and I miss him like crazy?’
‘Tomorrow morning I have to work and tomorrow arvo I have to do my other linguistics practice and finish writing my Spanish oral.’
‘They practice a lot, going around every arvo after school, bringing to life the old adage ‘practice makes perfect‘.’
‘I might have a look at it tomorrow arvo to get an idea of the problem.’
‘Emma R. rang me this arvo and asked me some stuff about PowerPoint… she was having trouble putting pictures up onto her slides…’
‘It should be an exciting finish this Sunday arvo.’
‘So I'm making some food yesterday arvo - veggie tofu stir fry with buckwheat noodles - when my mobile rings and it's Lewis.’
‘By Sunday arvo I was knackered from all the excitement.’
Origin
1930s abbreviation of afternoon (with voicing of the f) + -o.
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