Aussie phrases are used to indirectly describe something or someone. Here is a short list of some of the more common phrases which you may hear and what they mean.
He is a sandwich short of a picnic - Stupid
He has a few roos loose in the top paddock - Stupid, slow witted
A stubbie short of a six-pack - Stupid
Cold enough to freeze the nuts off a tractor - Cold
Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey - Cold
He couldn’t lie straight in bed - Liar, dishonest
It’s better than a poke in the eye with a hot stick - Better than nothing
Flat out like a lizard drinking - Busy
Ten foot tall and bullet proof - very well, feeling great
As useful as an ashtray on a motor bike - Useless
As useful as tits on a bull - Useless
Fair suck of the sav - A fair go
As bright as a two-watt bulb - Stupid
As mad as a cut snake - very mad, furious
Drive the porcelain bus - to vomit in the toilet
Wouldn’t know them from a bar of soap - a stranger, an unknown person
As useful as a one legged man in an arse kicking contest - Useless
Flash as a rat with a gold tooth - description of a showoff
Couldn’t organise a piss up in a brewery - Useless
Couldn’t organise a root in a brothel - Useless
So slow he couldn’t get a job as a speed hump - Useless
You’ve been living in the top paddock - put on weight (not to be said to women)
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