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Phrase: All your Christmases have come at once
It’s cold outside, and as I write this, we have a little bit of hail on the ground.
Let’s take a short trip to the land down under, shall we?
You probably know I spent a few years Downunder, and let me tell you, nothing puts a smile on a Canadian’s face more than waking up to 30℃ and sunshine on Christmas Day.
That’s what makes us believe all our Christmases have come at once.
It seems that this expression may have originated in Australia, thus my Downunder introduction.
It means that you are having extremely good fortune, nothing could be better, and you have everything you could have ever hoped for.
Again, as with yesterday’s expression, the more, the merrier, it doesn’t have to be Christmas time for you to use it.
Anytime everything is going right for you, you can say you feel as if all your Christmases have come at once.
Aussies are, in general, a happy bunch.
I’ve seen guys say all their Christmases have come at once because they found an extra beer in the fridge.
I tell you, when I spent my first Christmas in Oz, I was sure all my Christmases had come at once.
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They hadn’t, of course, and I’ve had twenty-eight more since then.
No, not all of them were on the beach.
I’ve only had two Christmases in The Lucky Country and another in New Zealand.
If you are not in Australia this Christmas, don’t worry; neither am I.
There’ll be plenty of time for that after we get through this pandemic.
Until then, remember how lucky we are to be safe and sound this Christmas.
Many families will be missing someone.
Perhaps we are the lucky ones, and maybe all our Christmases have come at once after all.
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