Phrases & SayingsWar, service and history
we'll be rooned
Also: we'll all be rooned, we'll all be rooned, said Hanrahan
A gloomy prediction that disaster is inevitable.
In a sentence
One dry week and he was warning that we’ll be rooned.
Where it came from
The phrase comes from John O’Brien’s poem “Said Hanrahan”, in which repeated predictions of ruin frame a comic portrait of rural pessimism.
- Where used
- Australia-wide