| Slang - A - Saurus |
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| Some useful words and
phrases, which are listed in alphabetical order in the slang pages, are
grouped together in categories here for quick, easy reference, as a kind
of "Slang Thesaurus" |
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| Excellent |
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bee's knees |
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beaut |
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bobby dazzler |
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bonzer |
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bosker |
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bottler |
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crash hot |
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extra grouse |
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pure merino |
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ryebuck |
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out of the box |
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trimmer |
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| Exhausted |
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buggered |
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bushed |
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clagged out |
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tuckered out |
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| Extremely Busy |
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busy as a one armed bill poster in a gale |
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flat out like a lizard drinking |
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flat to the boards |
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nose down, bum up |
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| Extremely Cold
Weather |
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brass monkey weather |
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cold as a bushman's grave |
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cold enough to freeze the medals off a brass
monkey |
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| Extremely Hungry |
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could eat a galah and bark sandwich |
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could eat a goanna between two slabs of bark |
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could eat a horse and chase the rider |
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hungry as a black dog |
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my stomach thinks my throat's cut |
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| Extremely Thirsty |
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dry as a dead dingo's donger |
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dry as a digger's dog |
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dry as a kookaburra in the Simpson Desert |
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dry as a pom's towel |
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| Fellow |
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bleeder |
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bloke |
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coot |
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| Fight/Scuffle |
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barney |
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beat the living daylights out of |
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blue |
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rough up |
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run in |
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