Actor Paul Hogan has forced an Australian burger chain to cough up $10,000 for charity after he tried to sue them for using one of his most famous lines.
But the bun fight might not yet be over, with Grill'd flagging a "cheeky" follow-up once the dough has been paid.
The original Crocodile Dundee made an application in the Federal Court in December accusing the company of misleading or deceptive conduct.
It used a variation on the line "That's not a knife ... that's a knife" from the 1986 movie on the sleeve of their cutlery.
The case was scheduled for a hearing on Friday but has now been settled.
Grill'd has agreed to donate $10,000 to Cure Cancer Australia. Mr Hogan is an ambassador for the organisation.
It's understood that was the entire sum of the settlement.
"There's an amount of ridiculousness in the issue at hand, given we thought we were actually promoting what was otherwise a phrase in the public lexicon," the chain's founder Simon Crowe told AAP on Monday.
"But given that it's for a good cause, we're happy to be knifed."
Mr Crowe said there was about $40,000 worth of stock that needed to be pulled from its stores and replaced with blank sleeves.
But he hinted the company might sticker over the offending sleeves with something "respectful and cheeky".
"Dundee is dead but long live Dundee."
It comes as Hogan, 78, appeared in a new Crocodile Dundee-inspired tourism commercial that aired during the Super Bowl in the United States.
It is part of a multi-million dollar Tourism Australia campaign targeting American travellers, featuring the likes of Chris Hemsworth, Hugh Jackman and Margot Robbie.
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