The prodigal son (likely a cad and bounder who has run up a large debt on the family account back home in Blighty) seeing a return home as the poor option !! Overheard in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. "Well, young Scapegrace, are you going back home to let your people kill the fatted calf?" "Oh, you don't know my governor, he's not that sort; he'd more likely kill the Bally Prodigal."