Phrases & SayingsEveryday life
where did you get your licence — from a cornflakes packet?
Also: get your licence from a cornflakes packet?
A criticism of someone's driving competence.
In a sentence
Where did you get your licence — from a cornflakes packet?
Where it came from
One of several jokes suggesting an incompetent driver or official found their qualification as a cereal-box freebie. Australian print evidence includes Weet-Bix and cornflakes variants.
- First recorded
- 1971
- Initial era
- 1950–1999
- Where used
- Australia-wide