| Slang - Faunal |
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| Strictly speaking, not all
our slang is home grown. Some of it has become ours through long and
frequent use, mostly passed down to us from our forefathers. However,
the following phrases, featuring our birds, animals, fish and insects
are definitely 100% true blue, dinki di Aussie. |
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| B |
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bald as a bandicoot |
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barmy as a bandicoot |
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bent as a scrub tick |
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| C |
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could eat a galah and a bark sandwich |
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could eat a goanna between two slabs of bark |
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could kick the arse of an emu |
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| D |
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dingo's breakfast |
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done up like a pet lizard |
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dry as a dead dingo's donger |
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dry as a kookaburra's khyber in the Simpson
Desert |
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| E |
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emu's breakfast |
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| F |
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fit as a mallee bull |
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flat out like a lizard drinking |
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| G |
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game as a piss ant |
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| H |
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hair like a bush pig's arse |
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happy as a boxing kangaroo in a fog |
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haven't they fed the dingoes lately? |
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high as a dingo's howl |
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| I |
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I hope your chooks turn into emus and kick
your dunny door down |
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if he bought a kangaroo it wouldn't hop |
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| K |
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kangaroos in the top paddock |
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| L |
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like a possum up a gumtree |
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like a shag on a rock |
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like a stunned mullet |
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lively as a blowie on a winters day |
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lonely as a bandicoot on a burnt ride |
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lousy as a bandicoot |
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| M |
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mad as a gumtree full of galahs |
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make a proper galah of yourself |
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miserable as a bandicoot |
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mouth like the bottom of a cocky's cage |
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| N |
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nervous as a mother roo in a room full of
pickpockets |
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| O |
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on the Murray cod |
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| P |
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pissed as a parrot |
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play possum |
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possum guts |
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put on a dingo act |
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| R |
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racehorse emu |
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randy as a mallee bull |
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| S |
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since Cocky was an egg |
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stands out like a black crow in a bucket of
milk |
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stirring the possum |
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stone the crows! |
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| T |
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turn dingo |
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| W |
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where the crows fly backward to keep the dust
out of their eyes |
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