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Bex (compound analgesic) - Wikipedia
August 31, 2025 - Bex was a product of Beckers Pty Ltd, originally based at Pym Street, Dudley Park, South Australia, but which relocated to Sydney in the 1960s. It was advertised with the phrase, "Stressful Day? What you need is a cup of tea, a Bex and a good lie down". Bex powders, as well as other APC products ...
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‘a cup of tea, a Bex and a good lie down’: meanings and origin
October 30, 2023 - 4: The phrase [a cup of tea, a Bex and a good lie down] can be traced to a satiric revue of that name first performed in Sydney in 1965 at the Phillip Street Theatre. […] The revue appears to have coined the phrase although variations undoubtedly ...
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Bex (compound analgesic)
What you need is a cup of tea, a Bex and a good lie down".[2] Bex powders were the housewife's drug of choice in the 1950s and 1960s until they were shown to be highly addictive and responsible for causing kidney disease when taken in large doses.[2] It has also been linked to kidney cancer.[3]
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A Cup of Tea a Bex and Good Lie Down
A Cup of Tea a Bex, and A Good Lie Down(Comedy Revue)
John Ewart,Gloria Dawn,Ruth Cracknell,Reg Livermore
1965 Phillip Theatre Sydney Souvenir Program
A Cup of Tea, a Bex and a Good Lie Down was a comedy revue that opened at Sydney's Phillip Street Theatre on 18 September 1965. It was the longest running show at the Theatre in 1966 and was performed over 250 times during its extended run. The cast included John Ewart, Gloria Dawn, Ruth Cracknell and Reg Livermore. The play was written by John McKellar.
The play's subject matter was Bex, a strong compound analgesic in the
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Bex Powders | The Dictionary of Sydney
Bex were promoted particularly to women with the advertising slogan ‘Stressful day? What you need is a cup of tea, a Bex and a good lie down’. [4] The line has become part of the Australian vernacular and can be used to suggest that someone should relax and ease up.
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Day 98 A cup of Tea, a Bex and a good lie down | In this my 70th year
July 24, 2012 - It’s a song of nostalgia, and pays homage to the 1950s and 1960s when jaded housewives were encouraged – in an advertisment – to do just as the song song suggests: “Why not just have a cup of tea, a Bex and a nice lie down?” · An internet ...
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“A cup of tea, a Bex and a good lie down” was billed as mother’s little helper, but turned out to be a killer prescription. Today's Advertiser carried...
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THE NAKED CITY – A COKE, A JAM SANDWICH, A BEX AND A GOOD LIE DOWN!
April 10, 2019 - Back in the 50s and 60s the hard ... chores and kiddie care. Around 3pm it was often time for “a Bex, a cup of tea and a good lie down,” as the popular advertising slogan encouraged....
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Bex tablet bottle | Moreton Bay Our Story
Claimed as a cure for headaches, colds and flu, all nerve pains and rheumatism, they became a ‘pick-me-up’ for bored, frustrated housewives. The advertising slogan ‘A cup of tea, a Bex and a good lie down’ became part of Australian ...
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A Cup Of Tea, A BEX, And A Good Lie Down… | timalderman
September 5, 2021 - What you need is a cup of tea, a Bex and a good lie down’. [4] The line has become part of the Australian vernacular and can be used to suggest that someone should relax and ease up.
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A Cup of Tea, a Bex and a Good Lie Down - Wikipedia
January 30, 2026 - A Cup of Tea, a Bex and a Good Lie Down is a 1965 Australian stage revue by John McKellar. The title references Bex, which was a popular compound analgesic in Australia at the time.
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Advertisement - Bushells China Tea, 1950
The significance of the Bushells China Tea advertisement from 1950 lies in its use in the image of a stereotypical Chinese woman, dressed fashionably in a cheongsam drinking tea from a western tea cup to market Chinese flavoured tea to an Australian ...
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Bex was not the benign headache cure people imagined.
October 7, 2022 - On September 18 1965 the comedy revue ‘A Cup of Tea, a Bex, and a God Lie Down’ opened at Sydney’s Philip Street Theatre. It was performed over 250 times in an extended run.
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My tea history 2: advertising, ghost signs, and Bushells | The Koala Tea Blog
June 7, 2015 - Women sitting around a table, drinking tea that had been poured from a teapot into tea cups. Advertisements for tea painted on the sides of buildings. In my childhood, in the 1950s, these sights we…
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The Daily Blog – A cup of tea, a Bex, and a good lie down
April 16, 2024 - They were marketed to women under stress as “why don’t you have a cup of tea, a Bex, and a good lie down”. So much so that the saying entered the language and means ‘chill out’. It’s not heard so much these days.
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May 27, 2011 - It was characterised in the play A Cup of Tea, A Bex and a Good Lie Down, which ran in Sydney for many years, satirising the mid-20th century Australian housewife's drug of choice.
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