As a matter of interest, what sayings are you known to use?
Whilst there are a number of well used Australian sayings, what sayings do you use a lot or are unique to you?
Lyn
Pam said
09:10 PM Mar 11, 2012
You forgot to mention your own sayings Lynnie. Perhaps you should "tweak" your comment.
I had a friend once who used to say"Do you care for a spot?"
meaning do you want a cuppa
Gerty Dancer said
09:23 PM Mar 11, 2012
I always call men "blokes"; 5pm is "wine oclock"; a tiny amount is a "poofteenth"; the toilet is the "dunny"; plenty is "lotsa'. Some words came back with my father after WW2, I remember "Impshi" which means go away. As soon as I stop trying to remember there'll be heaps more.
Dougwe said
09:50 PM Mar 11, 2012
I say something different for a tiny amount GD, "within a bees d??k" But I wouldn't say it if a lady was within ears reach.
A bit of a dill or if someone does something stupid I would say "What a pelican" I got that from my dad. I'm a pelican a lot actually.
goinsoon said
10:22 PM Mar 11, 2012
Thirsty
"dry as a dead dingos donger"
Cruising Granny said
10:31 PM Mar 11, 2012
Foolish stupid people are "gherkins". Unwise dimwits, are thick as 2 short planks. When someone asks me what I'm doing when they can see what I'm doing, "Standing on the end of the jetty ironing shirts". I'm so unlucky I couldn't win a kick in a street fight. Poor managers, couldn't run a hot bath. Bad drivers couldn't drive a hot nail into soft butter. Someone who's rough around the edges, or unsophisticated is a bush pig. When returning from a period of absence the greeting is, "Nice to see ya back", to which I respond, "And your front". Setting up camp is dropping anchor.
goinsoon said
11:07 PM Mar 11, 2012
Doesn't know his arse from his elbow
useless as a hip pocket in a pair of underpants
Can't tell sh1t from clay
Scarse as rocking horse sh1t
The most fun you can have with your pants on
Busier than a one armed brickie
Up at sparrows fart
Built like a brick sh1thouse
He is too slow to keep bloody worms in a tin
Landfall said
11:23 PM Mar 11, 2012
"Couldn't organise a chook raffle in a KFC store"
"Couldn't sail out of sight on a dark, foggy night"
"About as useful as an ashtray on a motor bike"
"If brain power was atomic energy, wouldn't have enough to blow their hat off"
When I'm teaching students to drive, I often have to say, "Just let the clutch out a whisker"
"Are your ears stuck on, or do they actually work?"
"OK I'll try again, using words of two or less sylables"
When asked, "Are you trying to make me look stupid?" I reply "You don't need my help"
Reading this thread, it brings out the best in me.
Dusty
Dougwe said
12:08 AM Mar 12, 2012
goinsoon wrote:
Thirsty
"dry as a dead dingos donger"
Thirsty as a lizard drinking
Delta18 said
01:07 AM Mar 12, 2012
An Irish lady aquaintance expresses shock as "Oh my giddy aunt" and if something has happened on two prior occasions it was the "last twice".
pauline said
01:56 AM Mar 12, 2012
Dougwe wrote:
I say something different for a tiny amount GD, "within a bees d??k" But I wouldn't say it if a lady was within ears reach.
my take on this for a small amount is " a flea's fore skin"
animalcarer said
03:18 AM Mar 12, 2012
Lynnie wrote:
As a matter of interest, what sayings are you known to use?
Whilst there are a number of well used Australian sayings, what sayings do you use a lot or are unique to you?
Lyn
For crying in the bloody dark
Dont act like a mona lisa
Watch it my girl I will throw you into next week
Two plates short of a dinner set
The lift doesnt touch the top floor
Hes having a Busmans holiday
She fell through the ugly tree and broke every branch coming down.
He fell out of a tree and landed into a arm chair
He can charm the birds out of the trees
A bird in the hand is worth 2 in the bush
Mad as a cut snake
goinsoon said
03:20 AM Mar 12, 2012
short arms and deep pockets
spiders in his pockets
moths in his wallet
gawd she's a bit of a bush pig
wouldn't work in an iron lung
wouldn't shout if a shark bit him
Loffty said
03:34 AM Mar 12, 2012
Grouse : very good :)
goinsoon said
03:54 AM Mar 12, 2012
got a face like a bashed in dunny can
couldn't tell his bum from a hole in the ground
seen better legs on a kitchen table
don't get your knickers in a knot
pissed as a fart
silly as a cut snake
better than a poke in the eye with a sh1tty stick
Dougwe said
08:56 PM Mar 12, 2012
Cool, but now the kids say FULLY SICK apparently it means the same. When I was younger fully sick meant you were very sick.
littledick said
12:58 AM Mar 14, 2012
ooh roo to the Grand kids.
Dick.
ChiChi1 said
04:56 AM Mar 14, 2012
Called my mother today: "You silly big Galloot." Don't know where that one come from. But she laughed.
justcruisin01 said
03:48 AM Mar 15, 2012
Two favourits,
Busy as a centerpede skipping.
Dumb as dogsh#t.
Lynnie said
05:20 AM Mar 15, 2012
Thanks for your input folks. Keep them coming. It was interesting to note that I have heard quite a number of them uttered from various people at various times of my life. This sets me thinking how and when sayings originate and are passed along over time. I guess when I meet up with people durng my trip I will hear some more. Interesting.
Beth54 said
02:14 AM Mar 16, 2012
This one's a bit unusual I think, haven't heard anyone else use it.
Ooshi! Or ooshi bada! ...get out of the way, move.
My family have been using it for decades without knowing where it came from or who started it.
When my youngest brother was travelling in Turkey he discovered it was a Turkish expression. We figured it must have come from the soldiers of WW1. Out great Uncle was one of them who survived, so maybe he brought it back.
barina said
02:22 AM Mar 16, 2012
I'll give you what for!!!!!
Schrapnel.... (loose change)
As ugly as a hatful of a********
you look like a dogs dinner
barina said
02:24 AM Mar 16, 2012
Black a a dog's guts
Horoo
Cruising Granny said
05:11 AM Mar 16, 2012
I make up a lot as I go depending on the circumcisions. Oops, circumstances. I don't believe in ADHT. It's really TATADS - "thong across the ass deficit syndrome". Travel around the outback. There's a lot of dirt between the dots on the map.
Cruising Granny said
08:46 PM Mar 16, 2012
As a single woman I often get the impression of single, lonely and desperate men that they see me as a donut - "Round and sweet with a hole in the middle".
-- Edited by Cruising Granny on Friday 16th of March 2012 09:19:20 PM
DandS said
08:58 PM Mar 16, 2012
" thats like giving Colonel Sanders your chickens to look after when you are on holidays"
"he is also selfish, he is depriving a village from filling a much needed position"
"its the only circus that I know of where the Ring Master is the clown"
"dont look at me in that tone of voice"
"sharp as a bowling Ball"
Daryl
-- Edited by DandS on Friday 16th of March 2012 09:11:28 PM
Cruising Granny said
05:14 PM Mar 17, 2012
Heavy footed hoons have more octane then brains.
When I was at my crookest taking the maximum number of pills in a day for blood pressure, potassium deficiency, anti-depressants, panadiene forte', I referred to them as medication for brain (anti-depressant), drain (potassium), pain (forte') and vein (blood pressure).
Since surgery I've done away with the drain and vein pills.
I'm not sure where the cholesterol and reflush fit now.
-- Edited by Cruising Granny on Saturday 17th of March 2012 05:18:08 PM
barina said
04:45 PM Mar 18, 2012
lower than a snakes belly back of bourke beyond the black stump as the crow flies silly as a wheel thicker than 2 planks
They keep popping into my head at the strangest times.....
Delta18 said
07:09 PM Mar 18, 2012
So low he'd need a parachute to jump out of a snakes ass.
So dumb he makes 2 planks look like a computer.
Cruising Granny said
07:14 PM Mar 18, 2012
If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all. Treat people as you like to be treated.
As a matter of interest, what sayings are you known to use?
Whilst there are a number of well used Australian sayings, what sayings do you use a lot or are unique to you?
Lyn
I had a friend once who used to say"Do you care for a spot?"
meaning do you want a cuppa
Some words came back with my father after WW2, I remember "Impshi" which means go away.
As soon as I stop trying to remember there'll be heaps more.
A bit of a dill or if someone does something stupid I would say "What a pelican" I got that from my dad. I'm a pelican a lot actually.
Thirsty
"dry as a dead dingos donger"
Unwise dimwits, are thick as 2 short planks.
When someone asks me what I'm doing when they can see what I'm doing, "Standing on the end of the jetty ironing shirts".
I'm so unlucky I couldn't win a kick in a street fight.
Poor managers, couldn't run a hot bath.
Bad drivers couldn't drive a hot nail into soft butter.
Someone who's rough around the edges, or unsophisticated is a bush pig.
When returning from a period of absence the greeting is, "Nice to see ya back", to which I respond, "And your front".
Setting up camp is dropping anchor.
Doesn't know his arse from his elbow
useless as a hip pocket in a pair of underpants
Can't tell sh1t from clay
Scarse as rocking horse sh1t
The most fun you can have with your pants on
Busier than a one armed brickie
Up at sparrows fart
Built like a brick sh1thouse
He is too slow to keep bloody worms in a tin
"Couldn't organise a chook raffle in a KFC store"
"Couldn't sail out of sight on a dark, foggy night"
"About as useful as an ashtray on a motor bike"
"If brain power was atomic energy, wouldn't have enough to blow their hat off"
When I'm teaching students to drive, I often have to say, "Just let the clutch out a whisker"
"Are your ears stuck on, or do they actually work?"
"OK I'll try again, using words of two or less sylables"
When asked, "Are you trying to make me look stupid?" I reply "You don't need my help"
Reading this thread, it brings out the best in me.
Dusty
Thirsty as a lizard drinking
An Irish lady aquaintance expresses shock as "Oh my giddy aunt" and if something has happened on two prior occasions it was the "last twice".
my take on this for a small amount is " a flea's fore skin"
For crying in the bloody dark
Dont act like a mona lisa
Watch it my girl I will throw you into next week
Two plates short of a dinner set
The lift doesnt touch the top floor
Hes having a Busmans holiday
She fell through the ugly tree and broke every branch coming down.
He fell out of a tree and landed into a arm chair
He can charm the birds out of the trees
A bird in the hand is worth 2 in the bush
Mad as a cut snake
short arms and deep pockets
spiders in his pockets
moths in his wallet
gawd she's a bit of a bush pig
wouldn't work in an iron lung
wouldn't shout if a shark bit him
got a face like a bashed in dunny can
couldn't tell his bum from a hole in the ground
seen better legs on a kitchen table
don't get your knickers in a knot
pissed as a fart
silly as a cut snake
better than a poke in the eye with a sh1tty stick
ooh roo to the Grand kids.
Dick.
Two favourits,
Busy as a centerpede skipping.
Dumb as dogsh#t.
It was interesting to note that I have heard quite a number of them uttered from various people at various times of my life.
This sets me thinking how and when sayings originate and are passed along over time.
I guess when I meet up with people durng my trip I will hear some more.
Interesting.
This one's a bit unusual I think, haven't heard anyone else use it.
Ooshi! Or ooshi bada! ...get out of the way, move.
My family have been using it for decades without knowing where it came from or who started it.
When my youngest brother was travelling in Turkey he discovered it was a Turkish expression. We figured it must have come from the soldiers of WW1. Out great Uncle was one of them who survived, so maybe he brought it back.
Schrapnel.... (loose change)
As ugly as a hatful of a********
you look like a dogs dinner
Horoo
I don't believe in ADHT. It's really TATADS - "thong across the ass deficit syndrome".
Travel around the outback. There's a lot of dirt between the dots on the map.
As a single woman I often get the impression of single, lonely and desperate men that they see me as a donut -
"Round and sweet with a hole in the middle".
-- Edited by Cruising Granny on Friday 16th of March 2012 09:19:20 PM
" thats like giving Colonel Sanders your chickens to look after when you are on holidays"
"he is also selfish, he is depriving a village from filling a much needed position"
"its the only circus that I know of where the Ring Master is the clown"
"dont look at me in that tone of voice"
"sharp as a bowling Ball"
Daryl
-- Edited by DandS on Friday 16th of March 2012 09:11:28 PM
Heavy footed hoons have more octane then brains.
When I was at my crookest taking the maximum number of pills in a day for blood pressure, potassium deficiency, anti-depressants, panadiene forte', I referred to them as medication for brain (anti-depressant), drain (potassium), pain (forte') and vein (blood pressure).
Since surgery I've done away with the drain and vein pills.
I'm not sure where the cholesterol and reflush fit now.
-- Edited by Cruising Granny on Saturday 17th of March 2012 05:18:08 PM
back of bourke
beyond the black stump
as the crow flies
silly as a wheel
thicker than 2 planks
They keep popping into my head at the strangest times.....
So low he'd need a parachute to jump out of a snakes ass.
So dumb he makes 2 planks look like a computer.
Treat people as you like to be treated.