Forgotten Aussie slang and one liners

Austastar!

3 years and 9 days!! strewth thats a long time dormant!!

well ill be ding danged........

theres a heap here ive never heard of before......

I fair dinkum nearly cried the other day.
I called a young Twenty Something "Cobber", then had to explain it to him, he'd never heard the term.
Get rid of "Guys" and "Dudes" and get Cobber back into Strine I say!

As dry as a dead dingo's donger

Book it up to the dust and let the rain settle it.

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Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

RN'ers - Worscestershire Sauce
Blood - Tomato Sauce
Blurters - green peas for pies
pi**ed as three shearers
dry as an Arab's fart
can fight like a shearer's cook
about as clean as an Afghan's underpants
Keep the shiny side up and the greasy side down (bosses instruction to a green truckie)
Soup sandwich - meat pie
donkey man - Merchant Navy term for a fitter and turner
golden rivet - as in "take her down the tiller flat and show her the golden rivet"
tobermories - big wild bullocks, from Tobermory Station on the Qld. /NT border
mermaids - weight of loads inspectors ( c***ts with scales)
lie docket or swindle sheet - truckies log book
beans - pills taken by truckies, also called make-a-mile lollies
watchmaker's or Irish screwdriver - large ball pein hammer
mad mick - pick
kelly - axe
banjo - shovel
fat as a butcher's dog
thin as boarding house stew
sin bosun - seagoing term for a clergyman
proctologist's mate - ship's steward (usually but not always gay)
chippy - originally a shipwright, but now a carpenter as well
felt more *****s than a second-hand dartboard
up & down like a whore's knickers
full as a catholic school
full as a drover's deep freeze
tired as a drover's dog
skinny as a gin's leg
"did you go through to Central or hop off at Hornsby" - old Sydney means of enquiring how well a mate did on a date with a sheila.

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Most of the saying up till this lot have been heard in Tassie, but Brians list is new to me.

What about: " He's a rummin" meaning a rum one or different/perculiar.



Rovers4

fits like a ***** in a shirtsleeve,
If his brains were semen, he could't duff a flea,
two inseperable fools;- the wit brothers, half and f...,
freeze the walls off a bark humpy,
freeze the nuts off a tractor,
face like five miles of unmade road,
promiscuous girl;- skippy, town bike,
big ears;-lugnuts, wingnuts,
pompous twit;- mudguards- shiny on top, $h1t underneath,
leave quickly;-shoot through like a bondi tram,
floating turd;- bondi mullet (previous site of ocean sewage discharge),
cook;- bait layer,
old refrain;- who called the cook a c---, (respose by all) who called the c--- a cook!

That's enough for now, I'll hit the donkeys breakfast.

Andy

as reliable as a two bob watch
as queer as a 3 dollar bill
fitter and turner (army cook)

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Originally Posted by THE BOOGER

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fitter and turner (army cook)

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and am I right in thinking this was as they " fit it into tins and turn it into ****" ? :D

and FWIW I read an article a little while back saying that a lot of these 'old' Australian idioms and slang were dying or dead already.

Funny thing was I hear the same terms/sayings they listed everyday :lol2:

Methinks the researchers needed to go beyond their university gates and beyond the sandstone curtain (those in NSW know what i mean) back into the 'real' Australia :p

Oh, and some friends just got back from a three week holiday in the US.
Apparently John let fly with a "stone the bloody crows !" at a lunch and everyone just stopped and stared.
They needed it repeated a few times and then translated :cool: