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519Not enough brains to give 'imself a headache!
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476You must be the world's only living brain donor.
dumb or stupid to the extreme
376Up at a sparrows fart.
got up very early in the morning
336He had a head on him like a sucked mango.
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321One foot in the grave and the other on a banana skin.
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He could talk under wet cement with a mouthful of marbles.
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299May the fleas of a thousand camels infest your armpits.
You're basically scum
297Too slow to keep worms in a tin.
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289Flat out like a lizard drinking.
hard work, busy. (But originally sarcastically)
288May your chooks turn into emus and kick your dunny down.
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271Dig a hole and bury me, it just doesn't get better than this!
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262He's got a few roos loose in the top paddock.
Doesn't have it together
251So stupid that he wouldn't know a tram was up him 'til the bell rang!
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221Oh, pull your lip over your head and swallow!
Go away or shut up.
198Ya bloody wombat.
Insult
147I'll go and have a Captain Cook.
go for a look
145He couldn't fight his way out of a wet paper bag.
weak
144Seen better legs on a table.
Cellulite city. Fat legs.
As welcome as a fart in a phone box.
Get out of here
141Stroll to the gravy bowl.
Go to the toilet.
136Pass the dead horse.
Tomato Sauce
135Get a woolly dog up ya.
get lost
134Busier than a bricklayer in Beirut.
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130Don't get your knickers in a knot.
Don't get agitated.
He wouldn't work in an iron lung
Lazy.
124I'm so thirsty I could drink the sweat from a Japanese Sumo wrestler's jockstrap.
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123Better than a poke in the eye with a burnt stick.
Be thankful for what you've got.
122Seven sandwiches short of a picnic.
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120If it was raining palaces, I'd get hit by a dunny door.
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119I'm so hungry, I could eat the crotch out of a dead leper's undies.
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114A stubbie/can short of a six pack.
Missing some sense
113Couldn't organise a fart in a chillie eating contest.
not good at organisation
112clear as mud
unclear
111Fair crack of the whip!
I appeal for ethical behaviour
109A few crumbs short of a biscuit.
neuron impaired
He spat the dummy.
mega pissed off
107Ya bloody galah!
You slow witted one.
Lower than a snake's armpit / arsehole.
Pretty underhanded
106No more sense than a native bear, an' not half as good-lookin'.
Dumb
105Another beer? Na, better hit the frog 'n toad.
Road.
104What do you think it is, Bushweek?
I'm not a dumb cocky from the bush you can't put it over me
103Where the crows fly backwards.
remote outback, strange place
102You're as good as two blondes put together.
Not very smart
As useful as an ashtray on a motorbike/water-ski/surf-board.
useless
As useful as lips on a chicken.
not worth a damned
100He's off like a bucket of prawns in the hot sun.
I am out of here!
99As funny as a fart in an elevator/space suit/sleeping bag.
not
He's on the dog and bone.
telephone
97You got the rough end of the pineapple.
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96You've got some face fungus.
needs a shave
95What a load of codswollip.
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94Sure as there's cold shit in a dead cat.
the certainty of the situation
93Stone the (flaming) crows!
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92I need that like a submarine needs a screen door.
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91I feel like a dog's breakfast.
Feel pretty awful.
Fair suck of the sav!
sav=saveloy=Frankerfurt. Fair go! Give me a break!
Fits like a bum in a bucket.
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90I could eat the horse and chase the rider/jockey.
yer bloody hungry!
Mad/Silly as a cut snake.
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89He couldn't drive a nail into a bucket of water.
to a hopeless driver
88Dumber than a box / wagon load of rocks.
Not troubled by intelligence
Yer so thin you'd have to run around in a the shower to get wet.
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87Drinking with Pat Malone
drinking alone
86That's about as funny as a kick in the head.
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A few sausages short of a BBQ.
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84Well that's down the gurgler.
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82Know yer! I'd know your skin if I saw it hanging on a bush.
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Trouble and strife and billy lids.
wife and kids
81Face like a smashed crab.
ugly
You've got tickets on yourself mate!
Someone who thinks a lot of themselves
So tight that he wouldn't shout if a shark bit him.
Stingy person - will not buy a round of beers.
80As ugly as a bulldog chewing a wasp.
Ugly
So hungry I'd eat a shit sandwich, only I don't like bread.
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Love to stay and count our brain cells one by one, but we can't.
No time.
79Got a face like a mile of unpaved road.
Pretty ugly
78He's a bit whiffy under the Warwick's
Warwick short for Warwick Farm (Arm), meaning underarm odour
77I'll fix your Jack and Jill.
Pay for the bill
76A shingle short on the roof of life.
a bit slow
75Syphon the python
Urinate
Off to the bog to leave an offering.
A sewer deposit.
73I'm 'aving a dogs eye and dead 'orse.
Meat pie and sauce
As rare/scarce as hen's teeth.
Rare
It's not worth a brass razoo.
Not even worth a penny.
72He couldn't pull the skin off a custard.
weak
71Happy as a dog in a hub cap factory.
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70Couldn't lie straight in bed.
people know your lying
I wouldn't touch it with a forty foot pole.
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69I'm as dry as a pommie's bath mat.
I need a drink
I wore my bag of fruit yesterday.
I wore a suit.
Welcome as a pork chop in Jerusalem or a synagogue.
Not popular.
68He wouldn't know if a brass band was up him unless he got the drum!
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67About as useful/handy as pockets on a singlet.
effing useless
Does a fat dog fart?
yes
Lower than a snake's belly.
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66Better than a slap in the face with a wet fish.
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As slow as a wet week.
That's slow.
Face like a mallee root.
ugly
You've got a head like a half-eaten pastie.
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65Three bangers short of a barbie.
dull-witted, slow.
A few tinnies short of a slab.
slow in thinking
Were you on the porcelain telephone?
vomiting into the loo!
Ya bloods worth bottling!
your great!
He could talk a dog off a meatwagon.
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64Between you me and the gatepost...
in confidence.
Cock-and-bull stories.
absurd, unlikely story, claiming to be true.
Well, strike me pink!
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63He's as full as a goog.
full, so drunk he can't stand up
What's your crust, mate?
What do you do for a living?
Get off yer high horse.
Your arrogance is unacceptable
62Dry as a bulls bum going up a hill backwards.
Extremely dry in the mouth
Go home to the ball and chain.
wife
You look like a stunned mullet
You look like a senseless fish!
61Full as a fat lady's knickers/socks.
Couldn't have any more food/drink
I'll give it a butchers.
Butchers Hook=Look into something
60Couldn't run a bath!
hopeless at organizing, running a business
He shoots blanks.
Sterile
At the drop of a hat.
At any excuse.
Hang a brown bear in the porcelain cave.
A number two.
59You can't have one foot either side of the fence if its made from barbed wire.
Sir Joe quote
Hold on to yer horses!
Just wait for a second.
Last about as long as a fart would in a blizzard.
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58She could scare buzzards off of a meat wagon!
She's ugly
The lights are on, but no-one's home.
A slow person, not all up there.
He wouldn't go two rounds with a revolving door.
weak or incompetent
Bonzer mate!
Great!
On your bike!
Get out of here
Thick as a lump of 4 X 2. (four by two)
not well endowed with grey matter
Don't come the raw prawn with me mate!
don't delude/try to trick me. To let someone know you don't believe them
Mad! He's as mad as a gum-tree full of galahs!
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57It's a Rip Snorter.
It's great.
Froth and Bubble
means trouble
I'm gonna strangle a brownie.
Nothing to do with girl scouts!
56How are ya, me ol' china?
How are you, friend?
You're as ugly as a box of blowflies.
Insult
She goes like the clappers.
Move fast
He's about to do his block.
Lose control of his temper.
55I'm buggered, broke and bewildered.
stuffed - underpaid & overworked
Reg Grundys
= undies
Like a rat up a rope/drainpipe.
very quickly
Takin' the kids to the pool.
Going to the loo.
Flash as a rat with a gold tooth.
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54You're a Wally.
You are not clever
He's True Blue.
Real Aussie
As handy as mudflaps on a speedboat.
Not handy at all
He'd make a cat laugh.
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53Did you see her Tasmania?
female pubic area. (Tassie Map)
Couldn't drive ducks to water.
A hopeless car driver
Like two bulldogs fighting under a saddle blanket.
what a fat woman's arse looks like when she walks in pants
So mean, he would steal the gold fillings out of his grandmothers grave.
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Gotta go have a slash.
Gotta urinate.
52The lift doesn't go to the top floor/all the way to the top.
not very bright
I smell bacon.
Said when you see the cops!!!
I told him a real Porky pie.
lie (rhyming slang)
Mate, shes as rough as guts/mullet/goats' knees/a pigs breakfast.
very rough, crude
Yer pulling my chain mate!
you are fooling me
Mean! He was so mean he wouldn't even let his dog drink from a mirage.
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Yer draggin the chain.
You are somewhat tardy.
51It's Liquid Sunshine.
Rain
Even Blind Freddy could see it.
Very obvious
Don't forget that Septic Tank's in town.
Septic Tank = Yank
To get off at Redfern.
coitus interrupts
Him! He couldn't catch a cold!
in poor form, not quick (Sport)
Your face is like a twisted ugg boot.
Insult
To do your lolly.
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Cold as a polar bear's behind.
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50He's an odd bod.
eccentric person, esp with a fixation.
Had to do the Harold Holt out of there.
a Bolt. Run.
49Is the Pope a Catholic?
Of course.
She's as ugly as a mud fence in a rainstorm.
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A few dice short of Yahtzee.
Not very intelligent or mentally incapable
A rooster one day, a feather duster the next.
the uncertainty of success
She's in the pudding club.
pregnant
He's a full quid.
He is above average IQ
48Ridgy Didge!
even more then 'Fair Dinkum'
As common as a cat/dog in Springvale.
Rare. (Alluding to Vietnamese eating dogs/cats)
47I'd better ask me cheese'n'kisses first.
Ask the missus.
Popular as a mangy dog.
Not popular.
He couldn't get a kick in a cow yard.
to a useless football player
As old as Adam.
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As lonely as a bandicoot on a burnt ridge.
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I'm humping my bluey.
bluey=swag + hump=carry
46What are ya bumping your gums about?
what are you talking about?
Here comes a bible-basher.
a person of excessive religous zeal. Uses narrow bibial interpretations.
Carrying on like a pork chop.
overexited, hyperactive
Putting on me stubbies & thongs.
Dressing up - tuxedo/suit
He kicked a sausage roll.
kick a goal
And you can bet London to a brick on that!
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45If his brain was made of electricity, he'd be a walking blackout.
Not bright.
See ya 'round like a risole.
See you later.
He' s all shine, no shoes.
He's a fake, a fraud
It's within cooee of here.
close by, within calling
There's a claggy on your waggy!
You dog's got a dirty behind
I'll give yer curry.
I will assault you orally.
Shoot through like a Bondi tram.
Leave in a hurry.
44We are next to the marble orchard.
a cemetery.
Your grasping at straws there.
getting desperate
I'll give yer a bell.
I will phone you
Full as a fat man's undies.
Had enough to eat
Does Jack Newton swim in circles?
Of course! Naturally, yes.
43I'm off to the rub a dub, dub.
Rhymes with Pub!
Could I bludge a fag?
Can I have a cigarette
Needed as a back pocket in a tshirt.
Not useful.
42Up ya Bundy!
Up your Bum! (Bundaberg Rum=Bum.
Come over 'ere and 'ave an optic at this.
Look. (optic nerve=perve)
She's been hit with the fugley stick too many times.
she's real ugly.
Had a blue.
Had a fight
I was driving the porcelain/ceramic bus this morning.
to throw up (vomit) down the toilet bowl
Go water a horse.
go urinate
Choke a brown dog.
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She's more emotional than a Bob Hawke book launch.
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41He's got a Ned Kelly on 'im.
belly
Come in, spinner.
Let's go.
Couldn't kill him with an axe.
The bugger just won't die.
40Stuff this for a game of soldiers!
Excalamation. Anger, Frustration.
As happy as a worm in a can on the way home from a fishing trip.
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The engine's conked out.
died, break down.
I'm off to the waterhole.
Off to the pub
Going twenty to the dozen.
Going top speed
Hold back your brumbies mate!
calm yourself down
Gone through that like a dose of salts!
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39Mad as a meat axe.
Crazy, bananas.
Couldn't get a kick in a stampede.
Useless football player.
She's apples mate!
Everything's all right
What a load of old cobblers!
load of nonsense.
Several palings short of a fence.
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Too useless to grow chokos on a backyard dunny.
Hopeless.
Doesn't know if it's Pitt Street or Christmas.
Pitt Street= major St in Sydney, full of lights.
He's so short he has to stand on his head to get his foot in the stirrup.
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38Not since JC played full-back for the Arabs.
A long time ago.
Time for me to nut and bolt.
Bolt-leave in a hurry
There's a potato peeler for ya.
rhyming slang = shiela
Wouldn't be dead for Quids!
Having to much fun!
If it was raining bikini clad women, I'd be washed down the gutter with a truck driver.
No luck whatsoever
Going to drain the one-eyed trouser snake.
Urinate
It's a Clayton's.
It's fake. eg: non-alcoholic beer
Darwin -where everything bites but the butterflies.
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Don't get off your bike.
Calm down
37Make mine an unleaded.
I'll have a light beer
Couldn't give a fat rat's clacker.
Couldn't care less!
Ugly as a deep sea racing mullet!
Ugly chick
A face like a mouthful of mashed up Smarties.
Ugly
Dryer than an Arab's fart.
Thirsty
I'm up the apple and pears.
up the stairs
A two headed Tasmanian.
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Damn dunny budgies!
what flies and hangs around dunnies?
36Real bunch of odds and sods.
bits and pieces. Miscellaneous collection.
Japanese riding boots.
Thongs
See the Lawn pizza?
Steaming pile of vomit left on your front yard when your mates leave after a drinking session.
A few chops short of a barbie.
not all there
Twenty/a few cents short of a dollar.
not all there- crazy
As fresh as a hand full of gum leaves.
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35Having a bludge.
Not working
Did 'is block.
Lost his temper
23 less the carton.
To say a person is "23 less the carton" alludes to a carton of beer, which has 24 cans.
He's got the good oil.
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34Busy as a blowie at a barbie.
To be very busy or hyperactive. (blowfly at a BBQ)
in two shakes of a lamb's tail.
real soon.
He's a right berk, he is.
an idiot
Last time I saw a mouth like that, it had a hook in it
Big Mouth
As happy as Larry.
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You'll never find that this side of the black stump.
the black stump is a legendary location outback.
Short of a sheet of bark.
weak of intellect
I'll stick yer bloody bum on the barbie.
I'm so mad I going to hit you then stick you on a hot barbecue
Don't whip the cat.
Don't cry over split milk
33She thinks her feet don't smell.
She believes she is of high class, she is posh.
He's a pain in the Gregory Peck.
Pain in the neck
You bet your boots that's right!
It is certain.
Give us a Mick Jagger!
A lager/beer
To be up the duff.
to be pregnant
He's sillier than a two bob watch.
stupid
Drain the main vain.
To urinate.
Let's get canned.
to have a lot of fun
Don't stick yer bib in!
Don't interfere
Dry as a Drover's dog.
Very thirsty
No better than a vegemite sandwich.
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32Was yer father a glassmaker?
Move! I can't see through you.
It's an embuggerance.
unnecessary or irrelevant interuption
I got here on my Mad Mike.
a push bike
Throwing/knocking back a few beers.
drinking
I'm that unlucky that if it rained soup, everbody else would have a spoon and I'd be left with a fork.
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That scrub was so thick a dog couldn't bark in it.
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Make like a shepherd and get the flock out of here.
Got to get gotta here!
Put the bite on.
Ask for a loan.
He's just loose juice.
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31Face like a robber's dog!
An ugly girl
That would gag a maggot!
it's so disgusting it would......gag a maggot
She's two pick handles wide.
She is fat
Pass the Cackle-berries.
Eggs
Splatter the bladder.
To urinate.
Squeeze the cheese.
To defecate.
Silly as a wet hen/square wheel.
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He's a good coca cola.
A cricket bowler.
It was so wet even the mirages overflowed!
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I'm on the wallaby track.
Looking for work
Not worth a row/hill of beans.
Of low value
Off like a school boarder's lunch.
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30He has no JT (jam tart).
Has no ticker, no heart, no commitment...
All over the place like a drunken spider.
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Shut your north and south!
Shut your mouth!
Tough/Fit as a Mallee Bull.
Damn near invincible.
More front than Myers.
pushy person
Not all the lights are on in the top floor.
not very intelligent
Goes off like Chinese New Year.
goes wild
A better man never stood in two shoes!
Compliment
Crook as Rookwood.
Sick, unwell
29Off like a robber's dog.
quickly.
He's a Taswegian.
a Tasmanian
I'll light the Nelly McGuire.
Light the fire
The whole box and dice.
The whole lot.
He's got death adders in 'is kick.
Mean with his money-kick=pocket.
28Fell out of the ugly tree, and hit every branch on the way down.
Bloody Ugly
All these butternut snaps.
rhyming slang = a jap
Game! He's as game as Ned Kelly.
He'll have a go.
How's your bum for grabs.
Pleased to make your esteemed acquaintance.
27Why stroll when you can roll?
why walk when you can drive?
Few tiles short of a roof.
slow , not very quick
A face like a marron and hands like a couple of yabbies.
ugly
Your bedroom looks like a Packapoo ticket.
1) Messy 2) can also mean toilet paper
My sky rocket.
Hip pocket
Johnny Horner.
corner
He is jumped up.
conceited
She's put on her best bib and tucker.
best clothes
Copulater / Cop ya later.
Bye for now
As ugly as a bag of spanners.
Ugly
Full as a Catholic school.
The meal was extremly filling.
He's not within cooee of finishing that job.
far away from doing it.
Bore it up 'em!
Give them a thrashing. (team sports)
Take a shuftee
Take a look.
26In a battle of wits, he'd be completely unarmed!
Not bright.
I've got to catch the Bread & Jam.
Tram
Get some mother and daughter will ya?
Fetch some water.
'till it rains in Marble Bar.
never
You wouldn't know if it was Whitsunday Passage, Thursday Island or Friday afternoon.
You are not competent to comment on the matter
Going off like a frog in a sock.
going crazy
As useful as a handbrake on a Holden.
useless
A few bricks shy of a full hod.
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To sink the slipper.
kick
He's a broken packet of biscuits.
Looks good on the outside, a mess on the inside
Have the run of your dover.
eat all you want.
25He / She has more chins than a Chinese phonebook.
has a double/ triple chin
I'll just go and strain the main vein to make the bladder gladder.
visit the mens loo
See you at the shake and shiver.
Go to the river.
Johnny Hopper.
copper
Face like a burnt thong.
Ugly
Send 'er down Hughie!
entreaty to God to make it rain
Cock a snook/snoot.
thumbs on nose gesture.
They're cockatoo farmers.
a smalltime farmer
To get the Darling Pea.
act strange/insane
You could drive a coach and four through that.
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He ran like a hairy goat
It was not his best race. (horse race)
Chew on yer boot.
I hope your accuracy is faulty in kicking this goal. Yelled at footy matches to a player, particularly when a football player is taking a free kick within scoring distance
24Teeth to tail ratio.
Active personnel to administration.
Taking out the garbage.
going to the bathroom/toilet
Come over and see my Malvern Star.
Car
Dear Bill! Ain't it a bastard!
denotes deepest feelings of exasperation and disgust
If it rained gravy everyone else would have a frying-pan - and I'd be left with a gridiron.
Unlucky
23If brains were dynamite, he could blow the dust from his ears.
thick as a brick
He's gone to Coburg & Kew.
Spew
The whallopers.
The Police
Call us a Joe Baxi.
taxi
Rough as bags and twice as nasty.
uncouth, rough
Meaner than Hungry Tyson.
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Grog with no nectar.
Alcohol free beer
22Down in Tasway.
Tasmania
You take the mad and silly.
Grab the billy.
I smell like a gorilla's arm-pit!
I need a shower
I'll have your blood for breakfast!
You're in trouble
Go tell the bar flies.
not insects
21I've got a eggflip.
A tip (horse racing)
Colder than a penguin's chuff.
bloody cold
Darker than the inside of a black dog's guts.
Very dark
It's that windy it would blow a dog off it's chain.
The wind is really blowin a gale.
20Go back to taws.
start at the begining
As useless as a chocolate fireguard.
Useless
He used the Mungindi glove in the fight.
He kicked his opponent
Wet enough to bog a duck
It`s rained a lot.
I'm going to use the bank a'bout.
the ATM (automatic teller machine)
19Watch out for the barker eggs!
dog poo.
Do you want some Mary Lee?
Want any tea?
He's got more balls than Keno.
Showing alot of determination.
Ten thousand sheep short of a top paddock.
kind of slow, an idiot
Japanese flying suit
T-shirt ,shorts and thongs
Knock into a cocked hat.
To destroy or overcome something completely
Mow the brigalo suckers.
Shave your beard
Hand in your dinner plate.
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18Two yards faster than a trickel.
Very slow.
Bourke shower.
a dust storm.
You look like a pox doctor's clerk.
Dressed up, slightly gaudy, bad taste.
Yer talking farmyard/Flemington confetti.
a whole load of rubbish.
That was a cockeye bob!
a sudden storm or squall.
17In a brace of shakes.
immediately.
A Seppo.
An American ,seppo being short for septic tank ,which rhymes with yank
Time to go to the soapy sapple.
chapel (rhyming slang)
Couldn't get a kick if he hanged himself.
Useless football player.
16Watch out for the Devil Dodgers.
Jehovah's Witnesses
Sweating like a pregnant nun in confession
nervous
Stick a ferret up yer clacker.
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A few Holdens short of a carpark.
stupid
He's so far up himself he's coming out the other end.
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Toss a tiger on the carpet.
Vomit
Pavement Pizza.
A pile of vomit , usually at a bus stop shortly after sparrow's fart
Uglier than homemade sin!
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15Sharp as a beachball.
Not very bright/quick.
It would kill a brown dog!
Nothing can kill a brown dog, but this tasted so bad that it could,
To talk to God on the big white telephone.
to throw up (vomit)
As full as a secondary school hat rack.
Very drunk
The bronze.
The Police
Face like a beaten favourite.
a shocking looking chick!
Joe Bloggs just coughed.
that joe (the baddy) just confessed
14Man's not a camel.
Get me a beer
You're \ it's about as useful as a bag full of farts.
useless
If brains where dynamite, you wouldn't have enough to blow your hat off!!!
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So cold it'll freeze the balls on a brass monkey.
coooold (brass monkey being the three balls that hang outside a pawn shop )
He's got a head on him like a Diranbandi mail bag.
ugly
He's a cocky / He's a cow cocky.
He is a Farmer / He is a Cattle Farmer
Into everything like/as useful as a drover's pup.
Not useful at all
Come the rubber pig.
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13Fair dinkum.
1) It's the truth. 2) Exclamation! 3) Is it the truth?
All froth and no beer.
Full of himself [not rightly so]
He's not the full quid.
Stupid
Spewin'
I am very upset about that.
You've got a head like a dropped pie.
Very Ugly
A face that only a mother could love.
Ugly
Every man and his dog was there.
Something that's well attended
Couldn't pull the skin off a custard / has a custard arm.
Weak / Can't throw (sport)
Showing more toe than a Roman sandle.
Showing plenty of guts
12To park a tiger on the rug.
to throw up (vomit)
He's got more corrugations than a water tank.
Lots of spare tyres- Rolls of fat.
If brains were dynamite, he wouldn't have enough to blow his nose.
stupid
He's blotto!
Very drunk, incapable of standing.