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Mickey Mouse
Excellent, satisfactory or well done in some Australian usage; elsewhere the same phrase can mean trivial or poor quality.
In a sentence
The repair job was Mickey Mouse—everything worked perfectly.
Where it came from
Australian slang sources record a positive sense that reverses the more familiar negative international sense.
- Initial era
- 1950–1999
- Where used
- Australian use; no narrower regional pattern established