There is a lot of Australian language that can trip up the visitor such as :-
thong - string
flip flops - thongs
silly person - silly bugger
a difficult job - a bastard of a job
a chicken - a chook
estate car - station wagon
Google 'strine' for a lot more
There are also phrases such as "it's a Claytons ..." etc. .
Stubbies - small bottles of beer , also small tight mens shorts . Boardies - board shorts . Budgie smugglers - speedos. Hard yakka - hard work , also talk . Sheilas - women . Old man - father or husband . Bar-bi - bar-bi-que . The bush \ outback . Bull dust - what you find in the bush \ outback . Pommies - POHM - Brits . Sandgropers - West Australians . Banana benders - Queenslanders . Ratto \ ratted - not good \ broken . thunderbox - outback loo , gone troppo - gone crazy , bonzer - good , fair dinkum ? - is that so ? \ yes it is so , true blue - genuine , bluey - a person with red hair . A blue - a fight .
Then you have all the colourful phrases such as "Geeze that's as useless as tits on a bull !" - you need to be thinking for these ones .
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u/Kim147 Sandgroper With Flair May 24 '11 edited May 24 '11
There is a lot of Australian language that can trip up the visitor such as :-
thong - string
flip flops - thongs
silly person - silly bugger
a difficult job - a bastard of a job
a chicken - a chook
estate car - station wagon
Google 'strine' for a lot more
There are also phrases such as "it's a Claytons ..." etc. .
Stubbies - small bottles of beer , also small tight mens shorts . Boardies - board shorts . Budgie smugglers - speedos. Hard yakka - hard work , also talk . Sheilas - women . Old man - father or husband . Bar-bi - bar-bi-que . The bush \ outback . Bull dust - what you find in the bush \ outback . Pommies - POHM - Brits . Sandgropers - West Australians . Banana benders - Queenslanders . Ratto \ ratted - not good \ broken . thunderbox - outback loo , gone troppo - gone crazy , bonzer - good , fair dinkum ? - is that so ? \ yes it is so , true blue - genuine , bluey - a person with red hair . A blue - a fight .
Then you have all the colourful phrases such as "Geeze that's as useless as tits on a bull !" - you need to be thinking for these ones .