It's the sort of mindset in which you don't take in the words of praise, only the boss's criticism and the barrackings of the crowd.
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Barracking
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The only really unique aspect of Australian barracking is its idiom, the distinctive language and humour involved.
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I had by then explained to him my custom of occasionally listening to Australian Rules Football on our shortwave radio of a Saturday afternoon; how, despite my barracking for Essendon, I thought a player from Geelong, Gary Ablett, the best I had ever seen.
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‘So to me barracking for the footy I identified with my father, although nobody barracked for Essendon.’
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