AUSTRALIAN SLANG .as..... /like... . Strictly speaking, not all our slang is home grown.

Some of it has become ours through long and frequent use, mostly passed down to us from our forefathers. However, the following phrases, featuring our birds, animals, fish and insects are definitely 100% true blue, dinki di Aussie. B bald as a bandicoot barmy as a bandicoot bent as a scrub tick C could eat a galah and a bark sandwich could eat a goanna between two slabs of bark could kick the arse of an emu D dingo's breakfast done up like a pet lizard dry as a dead dingo's donger dry as a kookaburra's khyber in the Simpson Desert E emu's breakfast F fit as a mallee bull flat out like a lizard drinking G game as a piss ant

H hair like a bush pig's arse happy as a boxing kangaroo in a fog haven't they fed the dingoes lately? high as a dingo's howl I I hope your chooks turn into emus and kick your dunny door down if he bought a kangaroo it wouldn't hop K kangaroos in the top paddock L like a possum up a gumtree like a shag on a rock like a stunned mullet lively as a blowie on a winters day lonely as a bandicoot on a burnt ride lousy as a bandicoot M mad as a gumtree full of galahs make a proper galah of yourself miserable as a bandicoot mouth like the bottom of a cocky's cage N nervous as a mother roo in a room full of pickpockets O on the Murray cod P pissed as a parrot play possum possum guts put on a

dingo act R racehorse emu randy as a mallee bull S since Cocky was an egg stands out like a black crow in a bucket of milk stirring the possum stone the crows! T turn dingo W where the crows fly backward to keep the dust out of their eyes