Guest Posted November 28, 2014 Share Posted November 28, 2014 I found myself saying 'All Good' at work yesterday and last week I messaged @scottish Stacey 'Good on ya' and I wasn't being ironic! And chickens will always be chooks, but that is more deliberate. What have other returnees taken home with them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NicF Posted November 28, 2014 Share Posted November 28, 2014 I'm not a returnee but I've been saying no worries for years - long before I actually moved to Australia. I picked it up from my father in law on my visits over here. He used to say it all the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxlornaxx Posted November 28, 2014 Share Posted November 28, 2014 Old mate n heaps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxlornaxx Posted November 28, 2014 Share Posted November 28, 2014 N 'aye' after sentences Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 28, 2014 Share Posted November 28, 2014 Yes, I can add 'No worries' to my list too I also say 'mad as a cut snake' and 'Buckley's Chance' but will add 'as they say in Australia' to the end so that's conscious - it's when they slip out without me realising it's un-nerving, I was there less than 5 years. I lived in London far longer but I don't think I absorbed the lingo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 28, 2014 Share Posted November 28, 2014 Oh god yes, 'mate' - I even call my OH mate sometimes, he hates it! Not sure about 'aye', that's something I've always said! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maidensarah Posted November 28, 2014 Share Posted November 28, 2014 I said arvo and no worries for a while. I'll always remember, 'alright mate, how's it goin' alright?' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessica Berry Posted November 28, 2014 Share Posted November 28, 2014 My OH said one this morning.....he was saying goodbye to me and said "I am off", then added "like a bucket of prawns in the sun", we had a little laugh about it. PS - Better just add, we are not returnees, but hope I can still contribute to this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seraphim Posted November 28, 2014 Share Posted November 28, 2014 "She'll be right". Uttered by every trade when they screw up/ do a botch job/do something other than you've paid for! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 28, 2014 Share Posted November 28, 2014 I said arvo and no worries for a while. I'll always remember, 'alright mate, how's it goin' alright?' Arvo is equally used in Glasgow so I could be forgiven for that one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest51810 Posted November 28, 2014 Share Posted November 28, 2014 I found myself saying 'All Good' at work yesterday and last week I messaged @scottish Stacey 'Good on ya' and I wasn't being ironic! And chickens will always be chooks, but that is more deliberate. What have other returnees taken home with them? Your a right little Aussie, you'll be sending me messages on fb next saying g'day mate and inviting me for BBQ's. Embrace it :wubclub: :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aunt Agatha Posted November 28, 2014 Share Posted November 28, 2014 I've always said "no worries" but can add "good on ya" and "all good" to my repertoire :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest51810 Posted November 28, 2014 Share Posted November 28, 2014 I say mate and sometimes no worries but I haven't even been to Australia yet lol. There was another one but I can't remember what now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perthbum Posted November 28, 2014 Share Posted November 28, 2014 Bludger. Fabo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest 47403 Posted November 28, 2014 Share Posted November 28, 2014 Bludger.Fabo Haven't heard either those yet and I've managed 5 months longer than you, what do they mean? Not a returnee but catch myself saying no worries a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gee13 Posted November 28, 2014 Share Posted November 28, 2014 Yeah .. Nah... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLoadedDog Posted November 28, 2014 Share Posted November 28, 2014 Bludger.Fabo Have lived in Australia for the 44 years since I was born here, and have never heard "Fabo". Is it pronounced "fay-bo"? If you mean "Fabbo", then I've heard it as a contraction for "fabulous", but it's not common, and I wouldn't have marked it as distinctly Australian. A "bludger" is essentially a work-shy person. To narrow the definition, it is a person who is work-shy at the expense of somebody else, eg "dole bludger". It originated a hundred years or so ago in this second context, as another word for a pimp, though that usage is now lost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLoadedDog Posted November 28, 2014 Share Posted November 28, 2014 My favourite - and I think the best - contribution this country has made to the English language is the expression "flash as a rat with a gold tooth." Have always loved that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dxboz Posted November 28, 2014 Share Posted November 28, 2014 Never heard the one about the rat and lived here most of my life - maybe colloquial to where you are? Love it though. The yes/ no - apparerntly I say it all the time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flybyknight Posted November 28, 2014 Share Posted November 28, 2014 I'm sure i've heard em all in my couple of years here. And as an amendment to 'the most aussie thing one can say' it would have to be.... Right-o hear it all the time. all the other stuff is said, but this is the every day one! love the place Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quoll Posted November 28, 2014 Share Posted November 28, 2014 The usual - no worries - g'day - how'reyagoin? - she'll be right - arvo - chooks - flat out like a lizard drinking - rego Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vickyplum Posted November 28, 2014 Share Posted November 28, 2014 N 'aye' after sentences I had no idea this was an Australian thing - my partner says it a lot, even in emails which doesn't really work... I have also started saying "righto", usually when someone gives bad news/tells me something I don't really want to respond to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulRaynor Posted November 28, 2014 Share Posted November 28, 2014 Have a good one! 'paddick' the bookshop 'dymmicks' and the pain killer 'Nurofin' and a pack of 'durries' (cigarettes) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wan2go Posted November 28, 2014 Share Posted November 28, 2014 Best curse ever ......"may all your chooks turn to emus and kick your dunny door down"! Yeah but, no but, hey.....(?) Under the pump..... When your OH is an Aussie, after 9 years it's hard not to use a few, even without meaning to lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3FatCats Posted November 28, 2014 Share Posted November 28, 2014 Preso for presentation under the pump all good and the OH is always saying far out.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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