What does 'Three dog night' mean in Australia?
Australian slang 'Three dog night' meaning?
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During cold nights, Indigenous Australians were often reported to sleep alongside their dogs for warmth. This practice is implicated in the common Australian expression ‘three-dog night’: the colder the night, the more dogs are needed to keep warm.