As crook as Rookwood is an Australian idiom for being very sick and almost ready to die. Crook is Australian slang for being chronically sick. Sometimes the phrase is used for deep corruption, but not in the sense that the corruption is led by crooks, people who are dishonest. The term crook is meant in the sense that the corrupt organization has been sick for a long time. Rookwood is capitalized as it is the name of the biggest cemetery in Australia. This phrase is informal, … Continue reading As crook as Rookwood