I’m in my seventies and know all of them although some have been changed slightly to make them more PC. For instances “as ugly as a hatful of armpits” I’ve always heard “as ugly as a hatful of arseholes”. Just picking random ones for you “as crook as Rookwood” is regional and you’re unlikely to hear it outside the greater Sydney area. Crook means ill or sick and Rookwood is a Sydney cemetery that is so large it has its own postcode. It’s the largest Necropolis in the southern hemisphere and one of the largest still operating in the world. So if you’re as crook as Rookwood you’re either gravely ill or you have man flu. “She’s got more front than Myers” Myers is a department store and the front of their Melbourne city store took up an entire block. Front can double as another word for audacity and this saying plays on the double meaning. So having more front than Myers is having a great deal of audacity and usually being full of your own self importance with it.
Happy as a dog with two tails = two tails to wag so very happy . Tighter than a fishes arsehole = stingy with money Drier than a dead dingos dongers = thirsty , especially for a cold beer A couple of extras - Fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down So lazy he walks in the shade so he doesn't have to carry his shadow
1) “Flat out like a lizard drinking” - Think of a lizards tongue when it’s drinking. In, out, in, out really rapidly. It means you’re busy, or run off your feet. 2) “Stone the Crows” - There are a few interpretations of this. Mostly it is an expression that means “you are surprised”. However, if you have ever tried to shoot a crow or throw a stone at one, you will find that they are cunning bastards. They seem to have a sixth sense. They are incredibly wary, and know what you are up to. They are very hard to hit. 3).:There are plenty of these ones about. For example, “As useful as a gauze door on a submarine. 4). Spit the dummy, or threw his dummy out of his pram. He’s angry, and is acting like a child. 5);Going off like a frog in a sock. It can mean angry, or it can mean frenetic or even refer to a party/event that’s really pumping. 6) Your bloods worth bottling - you have done something really good/legendary. It’s usually in association with doing a favour for a mate that got him out of a pickle. 7) Anyone who has shot a fox knows what that means. The mouth is agape, and the teeth are exposed like a smile. 8). Blowfly in a bottle. Similar to a frog in a sock, but more in line with the anger/frenetic interpretation. 9) Built like a mallee bull. A solid/ripped physique. More common term is “Built like a brick shithouse”. 10) Carrying on like a pork chop - being childish/being an idiot. 11) Drier than a witches tit. Witches are generally portrayed as gaunt, all dried up. Shrivelled. In this sense, it means dry (no rain, no water). 12) Fishes backsides are waterproof. That’s pretty tight (frugal, won’t part with his money) 13). Rookwood is a cemetery in Sydney. You have to be pretty crook (ill/sick) to get in there. 14) A Galah is a very noisy native bird. 15) As slow as a wet week. If you work outside (say on a farm or a building site), you can’t do much. It’s a slow work week because you can’t do much until the rain clears up. 16) A goog is slang for an egg, but in this case it means you are drunk. 17) All hat, no cattle - someone who boasts about how wealthy they are, but they have no money. 18) Phar Lap was a legendary Aussie racehorse (won the Melbourne Cup and the average Aussie punter loved him). An autopsy revealed he had been poisoned (in the US) and also that his heart was much larger than that of an average horse. They reckon a bookmaker “got to him”. 19) Myers is a large department store, with a very long street frontage. 20). Clams close up when exposed to air, and open up when under water (high water) Disclaimer: Depending on where you are from, and what context these sayings are used in, they can mean slightly different things.
One thing we say here and I always wondred why and just looked it up is, if someone is rude we might say " he has the hide of Jessie" I looked it up and never knew this until now but Jessie was an elephant :) Read this, The Australian-English phrase more hide than Jessie and its variants denote an excess of effrontery. -Cf. also early Australian uses of ‘more front than’ and British and Irish uses of ‘more front than’. The phrase more hide than Jessie: - puns on two meanings of the noun hide: the literal meaning, i.e., the skin of an animal, and a figurative meaning, i.e., effrontery; - refers to Jessie, the name of an elephant that was kept first at Moore Park Zoological Gardens, then at the Taronga Park Zoo, both in Sydney, New South Wales. On Saturday 1st December 1883, The Sydney Daily Telegraph (Sydney, New South Wales) announced that Jessie had arrived at Sydney the previous day:
Some were misquoted, and some were mispronounced (especially "Pharlap" in a teaching video. That's off to the glue factory for the narrator 🤣❤) That was about as helpful as Vegemite on your wedding night if you want the lingo to speak to a dingo. 😉 If a down this way, just give a big . and we'll hit the old local with the boys harder than a cane toad with a cricket bat. We'll have you walkin' like a one-legged emu, talkin'' like an Irwin, givin a sermon and pickin up Sheila's so easily you'd think there was a snake drought. Can't say the hangover won't be a Barry Crocker, but nothing a bit of the old hair of the dog won't fix. We'll have ya back, Jack. No flies on me. Take it easy, mate. Love that you seem to have a passion for the Aussis people and lifestyle. Stay Fair Dinkum, and you'll go far in life. Keep up the good work. Your smile and passion is pretty contagious. Not blowing smoke up your arse either.😜 Your mate down under. Scotty👍
@@matthewmcclure5218 they were all accurate (except pronunciations), but there are multiple ways to skin a cat, as they say (had to throw another in lol), so have multiple variations
It missed going off like a bull.in a china shop. These are country aussie sayings. Most suburban Australians I would imagine wouldn't talk like this unless they're city bogan
I'm an Aussie and haven't heard half of these but easy to work out, I guess a lot a regional or before my time and I'm 47 years young. Why aren't they giving any explanations??? One of my recent favourites is "I'm so hungry I could eat the arse out of a low flying duck"
I’m 70 and haven’t heard more half of these. My great aunt born 1900, passed 1992, had a saying for everything, so funny but she said them dead pan. Her mother was Irish so maybe they weren’t Aussie - Nice to see ya, nice to see ya go. It’s a wise child who knows its own father. I was going to make a list of them all years ago, funniest woman I’ve ever known. Sorry got carried away with happy old memories.
@@bernadettelanders7306 I've heard a lot of these. I'm in Sydney, btw. When I first started working, there were some older guys in the office, and they were full of these sayings. A favourite for one of them was "punt high and follow on". Some are a bit regional though, like the Rookwood and Myers ones. In Sydney they said "more front than Anthony Horderns" back in the day. For those that don't know, the Anthony Horderns store on Brickfield Hill (where World Square is now) was massive.
Flat out lizard = busy, spit the dummy = have a tantrum, mad as a cut snake = crazy, looney, blood bottling = you're a great person, pissed as a fart = drunk, mallee bull = built big, strong, pork chop = spit the dummy - same thing, water out of a boot = idiot, tighter fish bum = cheapskate, thrifty, dry dingo longer = thirsty. Hope this helps
Nah mate these are bloody amazing. As a lad that is a bit umm "rural" these are fucking sensational and I didn't know half of them were "Australian" 😂😂 As always, love your work lad.
Phar lap was a race horse was said to have largest heart for any horse .to takes two hands to hang wall paper. Rat up a drain pipe is fast not to get caught. She is brazen Meyers’s is a large dept store
Little River Band was never under that genre name...whatever that was. More like Soft Rock or Californian. Anyway saw them back in the 70s in Sydney. So good
Spit the dummy ( pacifier) like a toddler throwing a tantrum Kangaroo leather , very tough As crook as rookwood , crook is sick Rookwood is a cemetery so pretty sick feeling really bad like your dying Carrying on like a Galah pronounced galar is a pink & grey bird that used to be a common pet obviously in a cage ( hopefully large ) but they are funny & entertaining & a bit nuts . The more you interact with them the more they become like a crazy family member. Slow as a wet week is, it’s really slow if you’re waiting for the rain to stop all week. Phar Lap was a great race horse & when he died they did an autopsy & found he had a massive heart so if you have a heart like Phar Lap I guess your really loving & or kind . I hope that explains a couple of them
I'm an older Australian and haven't even heard of some of these. The American pronunciations of some of the words is really bad. Used to hear a lot of rhyming slang from my older family members.. eg Time to hit the frog and toad (Leaving, hitting the road), Where are the tin lids? (tin lids / kids). So many, just can't think of them all at the moment.
Some of them I haven't head but most of it I have and use. Flat out like a lizard drinking is you're as busy as a one-armed bricklayer in Bagdad/Ukraine! i.e. BUSY! I like the term "As useful as an inflatable dartboard!"
They certainly are. I am a Queenslander and my dad was from North Queensland. I grew up hearing these sayings all the time. Funny how different areas of Oz use different words for the same thing. Me - bread and butter plate Husband - side plate. Me - washer short for face washer, Friend - a flannel. Down south - a suitcase Queensland - a port
Most of them, not 'Australian', some came from British, some were pretty common in any English speaking country, a lot I've never heard in my life. I think the voiceover may be AI, either way, the mispronunciations were triggering. There are plenty of videos on Australia, made by Australians, we should stick to those. You were funny though Darion, as always. ✌❤
just because it's from England origins, doesn't mean it's not an Ozzie saying, mate has been used world wide for centuries and it's still considered Ozzie, also the way it is said here, might not have same connotations elsewhere. As much as I hate the AI videos, it's actually not that easy to find an Ozzie doing sayings that aren't the exact same, already known sayings
Crook as Rookwood. For anyone that doesn't know, Rookwood is a huge old cemetery in Sydney, the 6th largest in the world apparently with about a million interments.
A galah not sounding like a gala at all, short a, then long a, accent on the lah, grey and pink smaller than a cockatoo very loud like most aussie birds. Seriously if he is going to set himself up as an "Authority" on aussie things, he needs to pronounce them properly. Not with his american accent on them. You can get away with that, he cannot. Better still get an aussie to say them, and he'll get them right. What's the point with no explanations at all?
I’m in my seventies and know all of them although some have been changed slightly to make them more PC. For instances “as ugly as a hatful of armpits” I’ve always heard “as ugly as a hatful of arseholes”.
Just picking random ones for you “as crook as Rookwood” is regional and you’re unlikely to hear it outside the greater Sydney area. Crook means ill or sick and Rookwood is a Sydney cemetery that is so large it has its own postcode. It’s the largest Necropolis in the southern hemisphere and one of the largest still operating in the world. So if you’re as crook as Rookwood you’re either gravely ill or you have man flu. “She’s got more front than Myers” Myers is a department store and the front of their Melbourne city store took up an entire block. Front can double as another word for audacity and this saying plays on the double meaning. So having more front than Myers is having a great deal of audacity and usually being full of your own self importance with it.
Hi 64 years here, heard most of them, use them don't even think about them just use them.
Pha lap was an incredible horse he had a massive heart.
Happy as a dog with two tails = two tails to wag so very happy .
Tighter than a fishes arsehole = stingy with money
Drier than a dead dingos dongers = thirsty , especially for a cold beer
A couple of extras -
Fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down
So lazy he walks in the shade so he doesn't have to carry his shadow
1) “Flat out like a lizard drinking” - Think of a lizards tongue when it’s drinking. In, out, in, out really rapidly. It means you’re busy, or run off your feet.
2) “Stone the Crows” - There are a few interpretations of this. Mostly it is an expression that means “you are surprised”. However, if you have ever tried to shoot a crow or throw a stone at one, you will find that they are cunning bastards. They seem to have a sixth sense. They are incredibly wary, and know what you are up to. They are very hard to hit.
3).:There are plenty of these ones about. For example, “As useful as a gauze door on a submarine.
4). Spit the dummy, or threw his dummy out of his pram. He’s angry, and is acting like a child.
5);Going off like a frog in a sock. It can mean angry, or it can mean frenetic or even refer to a party/event that’s really pumping.
6) Your bloods worth bottling - you have done something really good/legendary. It’s usually in association with doing a favour for a mate that got him out of a pickle.
7) Anyone who has shot a fox knows what that means. The mouth is agape, and the teeth are exposed like a smile.
8). Blowfly in a bottle. Similar to a frog in a sock, but more in line with the anger/frenetic interpretation.
9) Built like a mallee bull. A solid/ripped physique. More common term is “Built like a brick shithouse”.
10) Carrying on like a pork chop - being childish/being an idiot.
11) Drier than a witches tit. Witches are generally portrayed as gaunt, all dried up. Shrivelled. In this sense, it means dry (no rain, no water).
12) Fishes backsides are waterproof. That’s pretty tight (frugal, won’t part with his money)
13). Rookwood is a cemetery in Sydney. You have to be pretty crook (ill/sick) to get in there.
14) A Galah is a very noisy native bird.
15) As slow as a wet week. If you work outside (say on a farm or a building site), you can’t do much. It’s a slow work week because you can’t do much until the rain clears up.
16) A goog is slang for an egg, but in this case it means you are drunk.
17) All hat, no cattle - someone who boasts about how wealthy they are, but they have no money.
18) Phar Lap was a legendary Aussie racehorse (won the Melbourne Cup and the average Aussie punter loved him). An autopsy revealed he had been poisoned (in the US) and also that his heart was much larger than that of an average horse. They reckon a bookmaker “got to him”.
19) Myers is a large department store, with a very long street frontage.
20). Clams close up when exposed to air, and open up when under water (high water)
Disclaimer: Depending on where you are from, and what context these sayings are used in, they can mean slightly different things.
the Myres 1 isn't about the size of shopfront, it's about the way they do the Xmas display, not all Myres had/have frontage
Mad as a cut snake,she's absolutely mad
One of my favourites is "As much use as a chocolate teapot".
Some of the pronunciation is funny as an Australian lol.
As tough as old boots,means very tough person.
Don't worry mate! I'm Aussie and haven't even heard of some of these lol 😆
One thing we say here and I always wondred why and just looked it up is, if someone is rude we might say " he has the hide of Jessie" I looked it up and never knew this until now but Jessie was an elephant :) Read this, The Australian-English phrase more hide than Jessie and its variants denote an excess of effrontery.
-Cf. also early Australian uses of ‘more front than’ and British and Irish uses of ‘more front than’. The phrase more hide than Jessie:
- puns on two meanings of the noun hide: the literal meaning, i.e., the skin of an animal, and a figurative meaning, i.e., effrontery; - refers to Jessie, the name of an elephant that was kept first at Moore Park Zoological Gardens, then at the Taronga Park Zoo, both in Sydney, New South Wales. On Saturday 1st December 1883, The Sydney Daily Telegraph (Sydney, New South Wales) announced that Jessie had arrived at Sydney the previous day:
Am watching this being ozzy am laughing me head off at your reaction has made my day
Most of it is half baked AI bullshit.
Really needs an Aussie reading these …. hearing galah mispronounced just leaves one with the chills, gah …Pharlap? Bad American accent, Bad!
IKR, does my head in when the person doesn't research pronunciations, even worse using AI like they do
Hey D Neal, in one of the sayings was Phar Lap (pron. Far Lap), worth looking at his story - a phenomenal racing horse with a big heart.
The narrator is of the beaten track.
The light are on but nobody's home,she's in her own word and doesn't understand
Some were misquoted, and some were mispronounced (especially "Pharlap" in a teaching video. That's off to the glue factory for the narrator 🤣❤) That was about as helpful as Vegemite on your wedding night if you want the lingo to speak to a dingo. 😉
If a down this way, just give a big . and we'll hit the old local with the boys harder than a cane toad with a cricket bat. We'll have you walkin' like a one-legged emu, talkin'' like an Irwin, givin a sermon and pickin up Sheila's so easily you'd think there was a snake drought.
Can't say the hangover won't be a Barry Crocker, but nothing a bit of the old hair of the dog won't fix. We'll have ya back, Jack. No flies on me.
Take it easy, mate. Love that you seem to have a passion for the Aussis people and lifestyle.
Stay Fair Dinkum, and you'll go far in life. Keep up the good work. Your smile and passion is pretty contagious. Not blowing smoke up your arse either.😜
Your mate down under.
Scotty👍
Well written. I'm imagining non Aussies would be scratching their heads in places lol Hi from behind the banana curtain lol
Never heard of half of these and some haven't used the right words. 😂
I an old Aussie so I've heard them all. In fact I use a lot of them. However, his Yanky pronunciation isn't helping.
It hurts like buggery that they didn't include "it hurts like buggery". Not 100% sure it translates to American though. 😂😂
Half of these aren't even accurate to the real sayings there played down big time Mate
@@matthewmcclure5218 they were all accurate (except pronunciations), but there are multiple ways to skin a cat, as they say (had to throw another in lol), so have multiple variations
He is a nice yank❤
Classics butchered by a foreign authority. 😂😂😂😂😂
Clearly Roo's loose in the top paddock.
It missed going off like a bull.in a china shop. These are country aussie sayings. Most suburban Australians I would imagine wouldn't talk like this unless they're city bogan
Bull in a China shop is worldwide
I remember mythbusters did that one it's world wide.
I'm an Aussie and haven't heard half of these but easy to work out, I guess a lot a regional or before my time and I'm 47 years young. Why aren't they giving any explanations???
One of my recent favourites is "I'm so hungry I could eat the arse out of a low flying duck"
I’m 70 and haven’t heard more half of these. My great aunt born 1900, passed 1992, had a saying for everything, so funny but she said them dead pan. Her mother was Irish so maybe they weren’t Aussie -
Nice to see ya, nice to see ya go.
It’s a wise child who knows its own father.
I was going to make a list of them all years ago, funniest woman I’ve ever known. Sorry got carried away with happy old memories.
@@bernadettelanders7306 I've heard a lot of these. I'm in Sydney, btw. When I first started working, there were some older guys in the office, and they were full of these sayings. A favourite for one of them was "punt high and follow on". Some are a bit regional though, like the Rookwood and Myers ones. In Sydney they said "more front than Anthony Horderns" back in the day. For those that don't know, the Anthony Horderns store on Brickfield Hill (where World Square is now) was massive.
This is tidied up for PC reasons but an old one "as full as a drug dealers phone book". Meaning very drunk
Spit the dummy means spit the pacifier as in throwing a tantrum.
Chucking a na-na
full as a goog- goog is an egg/ like googie egg
Flat out lizard = busy, spit the dummy = have a tantrum, mad as a cut snake = crazy, looney, blood bottling = you're a great person, pissed as a fart = drunk, mallee bull = built big, strong, pork chop = spit the dummy - same thing, water out of a boot = idiot, tighter fish bum = cheapskate, thrifty, dry dingo longer = thirsty. Hope this helps
Need to explain...dummy = pacifier
Yep @@Fiona-zc6oz
you should listen to Kevin Bloody WIlson songs, he will train ya up mate! lol
Nah mate these are bloody amazing. As a lad that is a bit umm "rural" these are fucking sensational and I didn't know half of them were "Australian" 😂😂
As always, love your work lad.
Phar lap was a race horse was said to have largest heart for any horse .to takes two hands to hang wall paper. Rat up a drain pipe is fast not to get caught. She is brazen Meyers’s is a large dept store
Little River Band was never under that genre name...whatever that was. More like Soft Rock or Californian. Anyway saw them back in the 70s in Sydney. So good
Spit the dummy, is some body one out of control
Bob's your uncle
Snip snip & Bob's your aunt.. lol
Slippery as a butchers apron, very sly
Brilliant video, I'll try and translate some later, it's too bloody hot right now! 🥵👍
Could organise a pissup in a brewery,she a hopeless organiser
Spit the dummy ( pacifier) like a toddler throwing a tantrum
Kangaroo leather , very tough
As crook as rookwood , crook is sick Rookwood is a cemetery so pretty sick feeling really bad like your dying
Carrying on like a Galah pronounced galar is a pink & grey bird that used to be a common pet obviously in a cage ( hopefully large ) but they are funny & entertaining & a bit nuts . The more you interact with them the more they become like a crazy family member.
Slow as a wet week is, it’s really slow if you’re waiting for the rain to stop all week.
Phar Lap was a great race horse & when he died they did an autopsy & found he had a massive heart so if you have a heart like Phar Lap I guess your really loving & or kind .
I hope that explains a couple of them
built like a mallee bull or some say built like a brick house means they are big as in muscles
* Built like a brick sh!thouse
I'm an older Australian and haven't even heard of some of these. The American pronunciations of some of the words is really bad. Used to hear a lot of rhyming slang from my older family members.. eg Time to hit the frog and toad (Leaving, hitting the road), Where are the tin lids? (tin lids / kids). So many, just can't think of them all at the moment.
When a lizard drinks it drinks fast to stone the crows ,is the have no chance.ash tray is useless.
Some of them I haven't head but most of it I have and use. Flat out like a lizard drinking is you're as busy as a one-armed bricklayer in Bagdad/Ukraine! i.e. BUSY! I like the term "As useful as an inflatable dartboard!"
Or as useful as tits on a bull... been saying that for yonks lol
let the dog see the rabbit meaning get out of the way
I'm Aussie and quite old and have never heard of half of these. Are they real?
They certainly are. I am a Queenslander and my dad was from North Queensland. I grew up hearing these sayings all the time. Funny how different areas of Oz use different words for the same thing. Me - bread and butter plate Husband - side plate. Me - washer short for face washer, Friend - a flannel. Down south - a suitcase Queensland - a port
I've heard a lot of them, they must be a bit different depending on where you come from. You add your own terms
@@56music64 .. hi from Bundy!!
@TheDivineMissMikki nice drop! 🎄🇭🇲
@@56music64 .. lol.. I don't drink alcohol lol
wait till you hear a Ausie say it. not a pom.
That was an American A.I. voice over.
slap us in the face with a hunk a bit of dodger ????
Most of them, not 'Australian', some came from British, some were pretty common in any English speaking country, a lot I've never heard in my life. I think the voiceover may be AI, either way, the mispronunciations were triggering. There are plenty of videos on Australia, made by Australians, we should stick to those. You were funny though Darion, as always. ✌❤
just because it's from England origins, doesn't mean it's not an Ozzie saying, mate has been used world wide for centuries and it's still considered Ozzie, also the way it is said here, might not have same connotations elsewhere. As much as I hate the AI videos, it's actually not that easy to find an Ozzie doing sayings that aren't the exact same, already known sayings
Bloods wor GG h bottling, good person
Then AI pronunciations are as crooked as as Rookwood.
Crook as Rookwood. For anyone that doesn't know, Rookwood is a huge old cemetery in Sydney, the 6th largest in the world apparently with about a million interments.
@ Doh. auto corrected.
A galah not sounding like a gala at all, short a, then long a, accent on the lah, grey and pink smaller than a cockatoo very loud like most aussie birds.
Seriously if he is going to set himself up as an "Authority" on aussie things, he needs to pronounce them properly. Not with his american accent on them. You can get away with that, he cannot. Better still get an aussie to say them, and he'll get them right. What's the point with no explanations at all?
DARION.most of these are bullshit Mate. There not even close to the real sayings.
Disappointed Mate that you would use an AI vid about Australia.
these are actually correct sayings, many sayings have many versions of it, growing up rural, I have used all these sayings
He's learning about us. Cut him some slack & encourage him to keep learning, giving him ideas on what to look for.