A list of Australianisms
Many of you know that I’m a patriotic Australian, from lamb shanks to Waltzing Matilda I love this country, except perhaps for some parts of Tasmania… Naw, I love Tassie! Who couldn’t love an island that looks like genitalia!
Anyway, I’ve decided to put together a list of Australian sayings that have stuck with me over the years.
As ugly as a hat full of (baboon) arseholes (please note: In Australia it’s ‘arseholes,’ not ‘assholes’ and that the inclusion of baboons is optional).
As useful as a wooden leg in a bushfire/tits on a bull
You’re from beyond the Black Stump (You’re from a long way away. Historically The Black Stump was a line beyond which colonialists wern’t supposed to go beyond)
You have Buckley’s chance (You have next to no chance. Buckley was an escaped convict who went and lived with the aborigionals, a very unlikely occurance at the time)
It’s going off like a frog in a sock!
It’s on for young and old
I’m gonna drop the kids off at the pool/give birth to a polli (A pollie is a politician, both sayings are euphemisms for going to the toilet)
Having sex with you would be like throwing a sausage down a hallway
They were banging like a flyscreen in a cyclone
Related posts:
The Movie List
The Song list
as if you haven’t read enough about my sexuality (on second thought, you actually haven’t): a list that got a little out of control
Hugh said:They were banging like a flyscreen in a cyclone - Colin, maybe you should send this comment to your neighbour, something for him to aim for, as it were, if his sexual techniques are that bad or at least sound as if they are
Commented on July 29th, 2007 at 5:24 am