For my birthday, one of my colleagues bought me “The true blue guide to australian slang”. Flipped through it today and found some funny stuff : )
Beer O’clock : Time to finish work and have a beer !!!
Nothing between the ears: Brainless, aahahhahaah
Bondi cigar: A piece of human excrement in the ocean (Euwwww, I hope none would swim past you)
Garage door is open: A polite phrase to tell people that their fly is undone.
What a ripper!! : That is fabulous!!
You little ripper: That’s fantastic!!!
Yabber: Talk a lot
Youse: Plural form of ‘you’. Eg. I love youse all!!
Happy little vegemite: Happy, contented Australian
Iron out: Fix some problems
Iron someone out: Punch someone and knock them down (must problems be solved through violence??)
They even have phrases to describe the level of severity of a problem:
Up shit creek: In trouble
Up shit creek without a paddle: In serious trouble
Up shit creek without a paddle in a barbed wire canoe: In very serious trouble :p
Sunday, 7 October 2007
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