‘Running a yarn to protect an in-house show is one thing - pretending it's a ridgy-didge story with real world protagonists just further demeans your image.’
‘I suppose he was wanting to come over all ridgy-didge but, strike me pink, instead he ends up looking a right galah.’
Origin
1950s from ridge, an old slang term meaning ‘gold, gold coin’.
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