all duck or no dinner

First use appears in Australian English c. 1895.

• ""You know," said Bob, "they'll be pushing their luck getting across the tides of the Irish Sea. It's going to be all duck or no dinner for Captain Carlsen.”"
• "This is what might be termed an all-duck-or-no-dinner approach in which “a univocal meaning” containing no “ anti-liberationist❞ strain is sought."
• "The afternoon I moved out of home, my father said, 'You're all duck or no dinner', which still applies to me today, although I can sometimes moderate the extremes."

• no fish, no dinner