Chester wrote: As it happens, one of our US comrades who is currently here for treatment has asked me to teach her some of the local lingo when we go on a jaunt up the coast next week. So........
It makes me want to spit the dummy when these dipsticks, drongos, drop kicks, galahs and mongrels come the raw prawn with us.
They're as useful as tits on a bull.
Bunch of wowsers the lot of them.
The drugs will be available any day now? Pig's arse!
If they tell you to wait, tell 'em they're dreaming'.
Hahah, Chester good examples:)) Slang can even change from state to state too. There are a lot of words used differently by US and Oz - e.g. 'I was really pissed' - apparently in the US it means you're angry (we say we're 'pissed off') but that here means you're drunk, wasted, legless, shit-faced etc. US - 'We'll be rooting for you!' - very confused when I 1st heard that, we don't use that expression to 'cheer' someone on!
Here's a few I've grown up with-
I was totally ripped off by that waste of space, bloody oxygen thief!
Stop carrying on like a pork chop (I still have no clue of the origin of that)
They're all a bunch of dickheads! - the most common!!
Quit your whining ya' big girl's blouse! ( this still makes no sense!)
Where'd ya' get your license? A cereal box!
Yes, the list can go on and on.....