About as welcome as a cane toad in Kakadu
2006-11-29 16:28:45 · 17 answers · asked by Donna L 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Wow, Alaskan. A bit much, eh? Anyway, like everyone says, it's totally unwelcome and unwanted. About as welcome as a rat in a bowl of soup.
2006-11-29 16:42:42 · answer #1 · answered by Inquizitive 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cane toads were introduced in Queensland to fight a beetle infecting sugar cane. They were useless at this but they had no natural predators so they have slowly spread south and west (towards Kakadu which is west of Darwin in the Northern Territory).
Cane toads are poisonous and kill native frogs and any large animals that eat them. Kakadu is one of Australia's most important national parks and there is great fears about what will happen when or if the toads reach there.
So the American equivalent might be "as welcome as Bin Laden at a NYFD union meeting".
2006-11-30 00:36:26 · answer #2 · answered by Jim T 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yeah it means you wouldn't be welcomed at all.
The cane toad was imported to Australia to eradicate the cane (sugar cane) beetle. However when they were released in the cane fields they didn't take care of the beetle problem. These toads are enormous and poisonous and they reproduced like mad and now many parts of Austrailia are over-run with them. That's how the saying came into being.
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2006-11-30 00:38:04 · answer #3 · answered by LeapingLizard 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I do not think Kakadu is an American City and I have never seen a cane toad.
2006-11-30 00:32:22 · answer #4 · answered by CAE 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The idiom is a modern version of "carrying coals to Newcastle."
Kakudu is a national park in Australia where the cane toad overpopulation is threatening the ecosytem.
Bottom line is something not welcomed.
2006-11-30 00:38:56 · answer #5 · answered by ditsyquoin 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Cane toads are considered a pest so it's an unwelcome thing.
2006-11-30 00:30:57 · answer #6 · answered by Abtsolutely 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
it means that you are definitely not welcome.
they hate cane toads in Kakakdu
2006-11-30 00:31:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Unwelcome!
2006-11-30 00:31:34 · answer #8 · answered by shendley04 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
heheh. I think it means English with an American accent.
And English English is probably Eglish with a british accent.
2006-11-30 00:31:50 · answer #9 · answered by smile4cobra 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Very un-welcome
2006-11-30 00:30:21 · answer #10 · answered by MR.D LOVE 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋