skiet en donder, noun phrase and & adjectival phrase

/ˈskit(ə)n ˈdonə(r)/
Forms:
skiet and donder, skiet-en-donnerShow more Also skiet and donder, skiet-en-donner, skiet ’n donder, skiet ’n donner.
Origin:
AfrikaansShow more Afrikaans, skiet shoot + en and + donder to thrash or beat up.
colloquial
In all senses also skop, skiet, en donder.
A. noun phrase ‘Blood and thunder’; action entertainment; an action film or book.
1960 Star 22 Mar.Why Dr. Hertzog is Anti-TV. It would be all ‘skiet en donder’ — and fabulous fees.
1971 Radio South Africa 13 JulySkiet en donder, blood and thunder, cloak and dagger — it’s all the same thing.
1973 Cape Times 19 June 11It’s the organizer’s task to bring the script to life. International intrigues, bloody skiet en donder, and dreamy romance are staged..all as quickly, cheaply and smoothly as possible.
1976 Drum June 18At these semi-blue shows 99 per cent of patronage are white. The blacks return with a change of programme — of the usual ‘skiet ’n donder’.
1978 Sunday Times 21 May (Mag. Sect.) 2It’s just a good ‘skiet en donder’ — though my publisher tells me ‘suspense thriller’ is a more proper description.
1979 Sunday Times 20 May 10Without the good old ‘skiet en donner’, it’s not much of a Western to me.
1985 A. Monteath in Sunday Times 15 Sept. 20They’re in flight again..in a movie not illogically called Wild Geese II. And a jolly good piece of skiet-en-donner it is too.
1991 Daily Dispatch 9 Feb. 8Even if they did make films like that, they would not be shown in the four-wallers in East London, which have been suffering from a plague of skiet and donders.
1992 Natal Witness 9 Nov. 9Now the film begins to become more complex and this is what raises it far above the popular conception of the Western as ‘skiet ’n donner’ into an examination of..the film created-myth of the heroic West.
B. adjectival phrase
1. Of or pertaining to action entertainment, particularly in films, but also in books.
1961 O. Walker in Star 14 Nov. 13The toga-and-tonsure school of drama is pretty active these days...It has a slight start on the skiet-and-donder genus.
1972 E. Rosenthal Meet Me at Carlton 39At the Carlton Bioscope, which lasted till comparatively modern times, generations of young Johannesburgers saw ‘Skiet en Donder’ pictures.
1979 Sunday Times 1 July 8I could have done without scenes of torture...This one you can safely miss. And that’s advice from a confirmed skiet-en-donner fan.
1979 Voice 17 June 2So John ‘The Duke’ Wayne, hero of many a ‘skiet en donder’ epic has at last bitten the dust.
1982 Sunday Times 15 Aug.Enjoy skiet ’n donner movies (Charles Bronson’s a popular hero).
2. In real life: of or pertaining to violent or coercive action.
1973 Sunday Times 4 Feb. 4The Government intend to resort to what are known as skiet-en-donder tactics. It..has nothing further constructive to say.
1986 Pace May 110Side-step the political skiet-en-donder daily dance in our ghettoes and with unseemly haste crawl into a shebeen.
1993 S. Laufer in Weekly Mail 4 June 9M— V— is anything but a skiet-en-donner tannie.
‘Blood and thunder’; action entertainment; an action film or book.
Of or pertaining to action entertainment, particularly in films, but also in books.
of or pertaining to violent or coercive action.
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