Oz Talk

The Australian Language isn’t English at all, in fact it doesn’t even sound like English. Here’s a couple of common expressions here. Good luck on finding any logic, I know had a hard time finding their meaning.

• Chuck a sickie : take the day off sick from work when you're perfectly healthy
• Dead horse : Tomato sauce
• Dinkum, fair dinkum : true, real, genuine ("I'm a dinkum Aussie"; "is he fair dinkum?")
• Fair suck of the sav! : exclamation of wonder, awe, disbelief (see also "sav")
• Flat out like a lizard drinking : flat out, busy
• Harold Holt, to do the : To bolt. (Also "to do the Harold") N.B. Harold Holt was a former Prime Minister who suddenly drowned while swimming off the coast of Victoria, so there is a double meaning here, quite clever.
• Kangaroos loose in the top paddock : Intellectually inadequate ("he's got kangaroos loose in the top paddock")
• Larrikin : a bloke who is always enjoying himself, harmless prankster... by the way Bloke : man, guy
• Mallee bull, as fit as a : very fit and strong. The Mallee is very arid beef country in Victoria/South Australia
• Mongrel : despicable person