Go you big red fire engine!
a phrase adopted by australian comedian adam hills, usually used as an expression of affirmation or encouragement.
it was coined during a 1999 stand-up performance in melbourne, australia. hills had invited an audience member on stage to yell out his own name; instead, the man shouted “go you big red fire engine!” the phrase quickly became an audience chant, and hills subsequently used it as an affirmative mantra, eventually basing a stand-up show around it in 2001.
“go you big red fire engine!” came to be regarded as a general expression of encouragement, and with hills’ urging it began to weasel its way into pop culture: it ended up appearing in a detroit newspaper and on a swedish website, as well as being yelled out in the australian federal parliament by then-senator natasha stott despoja.
“the only way i could get through every night (of a bad gig) was, as i walked on, to just go, ‘go you big red fire engine!’ i could face anything after saying that!” – adam hills, “go you big red fire engine” (2001)
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