Australia has an outgoing and inventive approach to language and many new phrase coinages come from there. Here’s our list of some of the phrases are associated with Australia that are now used around the world – and not all of them have to do with drinking…
- As happy a Larry
- Come to a sticky end
- Cotton on to
- Faff about
- Fair dinkum
- Flat out – like a lizard drinking
- Gussy up
- Home and dry
- Home and hosed
- Knock back
- Never never land
- Not for all the tea in China
- Point percy at the porcelain
- Pommy bashing
- Praying at the porcelain altar
- Put the mockers on
- Shoot through
- Stone the crows
- Technicolor yawn
- The amber nectar
