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  • January 28, 2014 at 2:10 am #98029
    Anonymous
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    My favourite maybe isn't a saying as such still it is telling
    Window – from Scandinavian languages Vind (Wind) Öga (Eye)

    January 28, 2014 at 2:16 am #98030
    Anonymous
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    Another favourite:
    Eavsdrop – from Scandinavian languages Öfsadröpp, meaning the raindropps falling off from the part of the roof that is sticking out from the wall. Stand below that roof and you may hear what happens inside.

    January 28, 2014 at 6:47 am #98031
    jayc
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    Growing up we took colorful sayings from all over and added them to our vocabulary, here is  a few we still say

    “dry as a nun's Nasty”  real thirsty

    “a tube of Neck oil”    a can  of beer

    “shake hands with the unemployed”    take a piss

    “the furry vee”    when a persons eyebrows angle in when the don't understand you 

    January 28, 2014 at 6:55 am #98032
    HisGirlOnly
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    No wuckin forries – don't worry about it 

    January 28, 2014 at 10:53 pm #98033
    Anonymous
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    Flaming Galah – Irritating fool or something towards that (in Oz)

    January 29, 2014 at 8:22 pm #98034
    HisGirlOnly
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    I'm into the feather not the chook = I like kinky sex but not deviant sex (a chook is a chicken)

    January 30, 2014 at 2:05 am #98035
    Brandybee
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    LOL  we  don't tend to use  chook  as  chicken  but we do say  Chucky egg  …

    January 30, 2014 at 7:58 am #98036
    Anonymous
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    Talking about chicken, eggs, and colorful sayings as Jay put it reminds me of this dialogue:

    Two chicken were having a talk around a barn corner and bragging about their eggs. The first said my eggs are sold at 45 cents a piece, the other laughed and said mine are bigger and are priced at 50 cents. The First sneered and barked that she wont be tearing her ass off for 5 cents.

    Usually tearing the ass off means doing something very difficult.

    January 30, 2014 at 10:36 am #98037
    Lover
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    lol..Jondas I know this joke too.

    Usually tearing the ass off means doing something very difficult.

    Same here

    Think my pig whistles = Its unbelieveable

    January 30, 2014 at 12:24 pm #98038
    HisGirlOnly
    Participant

    Point percy at the porcelain — Urinate (male)

    He’s got tickets on himself — A person who thinks he is the greatest

    G'day — Universal greeting, used anytime day or night, but never as a farewell. Usually followed by “mate”  or a typically strung-together “howyagoinallright” = how are you today, feeling pretty good?

    Fair Dinkum— Kosher, the real thing – as in “Fair Dinkum Aussie” (true blue Aussie original). Often used by itself as a rhetorical question to express astonishment verging on disbelief … “Fair Dinkum, mate?” = you've got to be kidding, haven't you?

    Drink with the flies – having a drink alone

     

    January 30, 2014 at 2:51 pm #98039
    Marilyn
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    Talking about chicken, eggs, and colorful sayings as Jay put it reminds me of this dialogue:

    Two chicken were having a talk around a barn corner and bragging about their eggs. The first said my eggs are sold at 45 cents a piece, the other laughed and said mine are bigger and are priced at 50 cents. The First sneered and barked that she wont be tearing her ass off for 5 cents.

    Usually tearing the ass off means doing something very difficult.

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