Showing posts with label FUNNY TERMS THAT AUSSIES USE. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FUNNY TERMS THAT AUSSIES USE. Show all posts

12 May, 2023

Flash as a rat

 Flash as a rat with a gold tooth.

As cunning as a shithouse rat.

Two typical Aussie expressions, the top expression is to describe a well dressed person, usually a man that’s rather shifty, the other term speaks for itself. 😂🤣 

‘Straya (Australia) where people are seen as being ridgy didge or true blue😍


https://wordhistories.net/2021/11/27/rat-with-gold-tooth/

Meanings and origins of Australian words and idioms

https://slll.cass.anu.edu.au/centres/andc/meanings-origins/all 

Some fair dinkum Aussie jargon here to enjoy 😊 I feel old when I look through the list of words that take me right back to the early 70’s. This article is quite an entertaining read as well as educational for those living outside of Australia. 


27 April, 2023

Funny terms that Aussies use: Flat out like a lizard drinking

 When one is extremely busy and someone asks for your help; the answer is sorry mate, but I am flat out like a lizard drinking. 

Description of a far of bush town, a few miles from Kick-a-tin-along. Funnily I am surprised that the Canberra region of Tuggeranong has not been dubbed this 🤣🤣 in the old days it was the furthest part of town AKA nappy valley back in the early 1970’s. 

Conscription in Australia, spirit message

Reading some astrological stuff online and I hear February 2029 Australia will bring back conscription. I just hope that I am wrong on this...