Is it RUDE 10 Common Australian Slang Phrases Aussie English
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emma from um english
and if you joined our live last month
then you would have
already met shah um shah is my
partner i am you are and uh he’s been
roped in to do some
live lessons with me or live
conversations and i think that the
interesting thing
about these videos for us
is that uh often lessons on the
english channel are quite um
formal formal formal structure it’s like
a structured proper lesson
whereas right now there is no plan
right now you get um very genuine
very real conversation between
me and char um today’s
live video is all about australian slang
which is an interesting interesting
topic um i’m sure that for any of you
who have
met any australians or work with
australians
or have australians visiting your city
want to come to australia or want to
come to us you want to move to australia
or holiday
in australia right so i’m sure that
there’s a level of curiosity about
australian slang
i have to admit that this lesson
or this video itself is not going to be
like a regular english lesson
australian slang tends to be
a little crass
what does crass mean vulgar um
i’m trying to think of the right type of
way to describe it it’s like rude words
but they’re not rude
perhaps rude just a little bit rude
um and that’s very
i guess it’s very normal in australian
slang
so full disclosure in this particular
video
you’re probably gonna hear a few rude
words though the meaning is not
necessarily
rude we’ll talk a little bit about that
um
but i did want to make that really clear
up front um
just in case you have your kids watching
or you’re not really into that kind of
language
um that is what’s happening right
australia may not be the place for you
maybe yes maybe i think that every
country has this though don’t you mean
you all have our we all have slang and
sometimes they say things which they
sound a little bit rude
or like you shouldn’t say them but
sometimes they can even be affectionate
oh
they can be positive what is um our
belgian friend but hello bart
if you’re watching you’re doing this one
wow he’s my favorite
belgian expression is to
um stamp on someone’s balls
to stamp on someone’s balls which means
to give them a really hard time
is that the context yes that’s right
often used in the case where you’re
asking for a discount
on the price from the shop keeper and
the shopkeeper doesn’t want to give you
the discounted price and he might say
hey stop stamping on my balls
which in australia we find very very
funny very funny
very funny maybe you have ones like this
we would love to hear
all of your slang especially if there’s
ones that are similar to the ones we’re
going to be
yes i don’t even know what we’re sharing
yet by the way oh and rosie’s saying i
used to work as
cabin crew on australian airlines and
she loves perth
where we live um but that is another
yeah really common way of meeting people
from different
places right it’s um connecting with
people in airports and on airplanes
so this might be an interesting um
conversation for any of you lebanon
fantastic philippines we’ve been to
philippi we’ve been to philippines
haven’t we
we’ve been to lebanon as well yeah um
yeah ahmed’s asking where’s your dog
actually she’s right at our feet
if you can hear some strange snuffling
sounds
in the background she’s we’re trying to
keep her if she’s good we can show her
later and also we can share what her
name was last
last on the last live we had we were
deciding between
daisy and frankie well anyone who
follows
me on instagram knows what the
answer might be but we’ll see if she
behaves
we’ll we’ll introduce her to all of you
again she’s
definitely much bigger now that she’s a
month
older the girl likes to eat she does
she certainly does so um
i’m gonna keep my eye off the comments
just for a second
and um talk a little bit about
slang generally so um
slang is a really informal
way of communicating with other people
so i’m sure you have your own versions
of slang in your own language
in english slang does not relate to
just a particular language it relates to
country it can relate to your social
circle the people that you hang out with
um you know i’m often hearing things
that my own brothers
say and thinking i have no idea
what you’re talking about at all their
own version of slang the way that they
communicate with each other
is unique to a particular social circle
or age group or demographic
that kind of thing so of course with
slang it’s always
interesting and fun to learn about
different expressions different ways of
expressing yourself
but it would be very very odd
for you to use an australian slang
expression
when talking to an american for example
because we
often have this and actually our team
er they are english speakers from
all over the world and we often have
these conversations where we just think
i have no idea what you’re talking about
i would never say that what on earth are
you talking about so slang’s very
local and you would probably have this
as well you have slang amongst your
friends you have little sayings and
words and things so
um i was going to say take it with a
grain of salt but
um you might find times where the things
that
we’re sharing today other australians
are saying
and you might find other australians
saying different things that
maybe we haven’t heard of so um what’s
the golden rule with
using slang then the idea is what that
you don’t just kind of you wait
back a little bit to see if they’re
using these words before you
might say it or what do you do about it
the best the best strategy with slang
is to listen for and be aware of
the words expressions and phrases that
are happening around you
before you start using them yourself and
so if you’re hearing these things and
you’re trying to understand them
people around you at your workplace at
your
local gym at the pub wherever you are
if you hear these expressions then
that’s a really good sign
that you can start experimenting with
them yourself
definitely um so if you’re curious about
australian slang
this video is definitely going to be for
you if you
are living in or moving to australia at
some point
definitely it’s going to be an
interesting one we’re going to be
talking about some expressions that are
not
commonly shared on all of the standard
blog sites about australian slang um
tinny servo snag
dunny we’re not talking what do i have
to do today
what am i supposed to be doing why am i
here we’ll get to that
um of course if you know any australian
cities
um or if you know any australians living
in your city or you have to meet them
maybe
work in tourism and you see them all the
time
this is going to be an interesting video
to help you learn how
australians think and i think that
like we mentioned earlier australians
have this really unusual ability
to turn rude words or what would seem to
be rude words
into positive meanings
or neutral meanings you know so they’re
not necessarily rude
though they sound it not all as it seems
right um what are you doing here i need
you
to help me talk about the particular
contexts
or situations when these expressions
might be useful or relevant
like when i would say them or like an
example of what i would say
yeah yeah because i think it’s great to
hear
what this word is or what this phrase is
what it means okay but
we really want to know like what’s the
situation where you would actually
use it and for both of us this
list we’ve got 10 expressions
um for both of us they are all ones that
we would use
regularly and comfortably they’re not
sort of random
ones that we don’t actually use
ourselves how do you know what slang
that i use
i live with you of course i know
okay this will be this interesting be
interesting
okay um let’s start
with um chuck asiki
so um this is quite quite a common one
we say in australia to chuck a sickie
um sometimes you might hear throw a
sickie
or pull a sickies there’s a couple of
different verbs that you might use but
what is a
sikhi shah
it’s when you’re sick so generally
sicky when you’re sick yeah so like when
you can’t go to work because you become
unwell you have a cold but you don’t
really have a cold you’re just saying
that you don’t feel very well
and so you say we use the word sikhi so
it’s for those days where i don’t feel
like going to work
in australia and for me personally the
weather
is beautiful the ocean is calm the fish
are biting i would chuck a sickie
which would mean that i would tell my
boss
which would be you that i’m not feeling
very well today and i can’t come to work
but in the background i would say um
okay i can come
fishing with you as i’d say to my mate
mate i can come fishing with you
um i’ll just chuck a sickie and the
reason why we can do that i guess is in
australia we get
paid days off work if you’re not feeling
very well
i think we get six days a year or
something like that so i have six days a
year
where i don’t have to produce a doctor’s
certificate and i can
chuck a sickie take the day off work
i wonder if that’s true for everyone who
is watching as well if you
have ever called into your office
at work to your boss and um
you said i’m really sick
i’m a little bit unwell today i can’t
come
in but actually you’ve just got
something else more exciting that you
want to do
so that’s chucking strategy um so it’s
pretending to be sick
when you are not now australians
often use the word sick
to suggest that something is really
really
good so you’ll often hear
australians saying younger australians
especially
i would say not my parents
no that’s true yeah um so they might say
i went away for the weekend and we went
kite surfing
and char would say oh that sounds
sick i was about to say it too
that is what i would say oh would say
that sounds sick yeah that sounds
absolutely sick
exactly and that’s a really positive
thing we might say fully sick like if it
was really good
and i was excited for somebody else i
would say
fully sick that sounds so exciting to me
yeah
um it’s interesting like i said not all
is as it seems in australia it sounds
bizarre
to say that something is really good by
saying
it’s sick and also
crook now crook
is a very australian way of saying that
you
are unwell so if you’re not feeling
good you might have heard the expression
uh
to be under the weather to be not
feeling very well
so in australia you might say
well look i was a little crook over the
weekend
i wasn’t feeling very well so
that is a very normal usage of the word
crook
but it can also be a positive thing
yes and it can also be a negative
another
even a sickening thing that’s related to
sick so crook
and sick but we also have some people
use the word crook to also describe
something that was
absolutely amazing for example
the sun came up over the ocean
and everyone was having a wonderful time
and the weather was perfect
and um it was crook
which just doesn’t make any make any
sense at all because it means like and
it’s almost like it was so good
that i felt sick it’s kind of what it
kind of implies something like that but
not a literal transfer but i would
i would say that the most common
usage of crook is um you know if you
walked into a room and it
smelt really bad really really bad
then you might say that’s crook
and it was crook yes exactly that would
be
the most common way my dog just ate
horse poo
in front of me it was cruel all right
i could do lots of these ones um
okay so the next one we’ve talked about
chucky sticky
we’ve talked about sick as in awesome
yes um what about a bum
steer like steering the car
a bum steer the bum is like as in my
bottom
yes so and the way that we would
normally
express this idea is to say that someone
gave you a bum steer
i don’t know if anyone would know what
this means that’s what we’re here for
yeah well um i would say
um the bums here would be like um if i
was asking
someone what’s a really great place uh
that i can get a good coffee
and then they sent me to a cafe and i
went to that cafe
and they don’t even serve coffee and
they only serve smoothies
so i went to that place wasted all this
time and i would say oh
she gave me a bum steer so she sent me
off
in some direction looking for looking
for something
and steered my bum around i don’t know
but anyway just me i would just be
disappointed because i was given the bum
steal she gave me the bum steer
and all i wanted was a great coffee she
sent me to the place that doesn’t even
serve coffee
that’s a yeah a good way to describe it
is to say
that someone was really disappointed you
know if you
went all the way somewhere and you
didn’t get what you wanted
i got a bum steer i got told to go there
but i didn’t get what i wanted yes
there is a really great great question
that’s come in
um uh
from in the comments asking what the
meaning
of driving me nuts is
you’re driving me nuts
this isn’t specifically an australian
slang expression but it
is very common here um if someone is
driving you
nuts it means they’re driving you crazy
they’re annoying you
they’re being really frustrating it’s
making you annoyed um they’re driving me
nuts
the same as driving you crazy driving
crazy you’re making me go from not crazy
to crazy you’re driving me crazy yeah
like that
you’re driving yeah exactly yes loco
exactly yep good idea exactly right
driving me crazy
correct correct correct guys um miyamoto
is asking
why are you not adding mate to the end
of every sentence
i can be more australian mate if you
really want me to
but for the purpose of youtube no
this is very much the context you’d like
me to be more australian i can be real
australian
mate tell me what it means to say
that if i said you’re spewing or i’m
spewing
so to spew spew
means to vomit or to throw up okay
that’s
also sort of informal sort of
way of explaining that someone vomited
or they threw up
spew it’s not a very nice sounding word
but no one wants to speak no in
australia
um we have an expression and we usually
say that i’m spewing
or he is spewing or she
would be yes like for example
i just spent two thousand dollars
on booking my whole holiday with my
family
and then covered restrictions hit and i
lost
all the money oh you’d be spewing you
would be
you would be ewing ewing you would be so
annoyed and upset you would be
frustrated you would be angry
you would be spurious yes yep
very very australian stuff like that
yeah um what about
to if if someone cracked it
crack like cracked it if someone
cracked it yeah what does that mean
well it’s like um so
the most common time when i would say
crack it is when i see
little children in the restaurant or
little children
in a museum or someplace their parents
take them
and then all of a sudden they are tired
they’ve had too much they want to go
home and they start crying
and yelling and hitting stuff and i
would look to emma and say
someone’s cracked it like that and i
would refer to the little kid
as crack that kid has cracked it or and
anyone has corrected so anyone who
looks like a it’s like a build up of all
this
like frustration and irritation and
anger and
annoyance and then eventually you break
and then you start behaving in some
other way and we would say oh they’ve
cracked it
yeah often you would say that about a
child
who is you know they can’t control their
emotions but you often see
adults you know when someone gets really
angry because they
a waitress messed up the order yeah
somebody pushes into a queue
yeah and you watch someone push in the
queue in front and in australia we all
like to wait our turn
and then somebody pushes in front and
then
the person watching they cannot take it
anymore they crack it
and they go and say something to that
person hey you can’t push into that
queue we’re all standing here look
waiting our turn and you’ve just pushed
in and at that point we might even say
he just cracked the which could be
an even higher level
more more related to adults in some ways
i’m not sure if that’s right
yeah but it’s like a more you wouldn’t
say that intense you wouldn’t say that
you wouldn’t say a child’s crack the
that’s a rude word isn’t it
i didn’t even think of that but that’s
actually a swear word
yes yes the cracker shits is like wow
they’re really
angry now yeah so cranky yep somebody is
so cranky
um cracked like an egg kind of like that
but
let’s siana burst into tears like maybe
not that’s like really upset like crying
but you know it could be it could be so
especially if you’re talking about a
child
who has um you know something
hasn’t gone the way they wanted it to
and so they get really upset and
ruin the day of everyone else who is
there
they crack it and often it means
you know their parents or whoever’s with
them all their plans are ruined
you know it’s not fun for anyone else if
someone cracks it
usually you end up going home what about
you crack me up
which has been coming from corpse
awareness that is a
good one so here we’ve got a couple of
different meanings here so to crack it
uh is to get angry and upset
um to crack the shits is a very
very can’t believe we’re saying this i
know well like i said this isn’t
a normal english lesson there is
definitely going to be some swear words
here not necessarily a really
rude meaning but definitely the words
that we usually
associate with being quite rude um
we we use in sort of more
regular contexts in australia um
what was it she cracks her up
okay so if you crack up in a positive
way
it means that you are really really
funny or
some um so if i said to you char
you crack me up which i do
yes so often sometimes um
there you go so i just did it yeah so if
shah if i said to shia you crack me up
it’s because
i’m laughing at something that he’s said
or he’s done he’s really funny
frankie cracks me up all the time she’s
a
ah you just gave away the answer oh
no no they didn’t hear moving around
um so yeah another great uh
ah not crack the sheets
like the sheets that you put on your bed
the
shits which is yeah like a
kind of a ruder way of saying poo um
so to crack the shits is a very
australian expression of being
annoyed speaking of being annoyed we
also
say that someone is
pissed yes we do pissed off
or pissed yeah yeah we say this word a
lot
this is to urinate
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right that’s what peace means but we use
this word pissed
you said pissed off so if i’m pissed off
that means i’m really
angry someone’s cheated me in some way
um something didn’t go my way that it
was supposed to be
really annoyed about something i really
pissed off and generally it’s
pissed off is generally because
something else out there happened to me
yeah but it kind of wasn’t um so in a
way it’s quite
similar just angry generally i missed my
flight i was
pissed off because i wasn’t able to make
it
to the concert it’s similar to
crackit you know if someone cracked it
they are
pissed off for sure
um so that is also a piece also means
drunk
it does he was really pissed
means he was really i mean they use this
in
british english yes i don’t know if they
said that in the u.s do they uh
i don’t think so i think in the us they
don’t tend to be
as um kind of loose
with their language as we are
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so like shah said piss is definitely
slang
for to urinate or to we um
and so of course it has been
transformed into lots of different
expressions in australia
we say that someone is pissed if they
are
annoyed they look really angry if you
saw
some angry guy walking towards you and
you thought oh
that guy looks pissed like really upset
it’s more scary when a woman is pissed
like
she was pissed like wow she must have
been really scary
yes pissed off pissed off she was really
pissed off
yes um but like char said it also means
to be
drunk now one of
my favorite expressions also relating
to piss
is to take
the piss or to take the piss out of
someone let’s talk about that a little
because
that can get sort of interpreted in a
couple of different ways
right to take the piss so i would say
well you can take the piss out of
someone which means you make
fun of that person or you make jokes
about that person so that
everyone else or you can laugh at
someone now you can do that
in a fun way like with your friends and
take the piss out of him
because everyone’s having fun so we all
love to laugh at each other
in australia we don’t like to take it
ourselves very seriously
we like to laugh about ourselves so i
might take the piss
out of myself i might take the piss out
of my friends
i make the take the peace out of anyone
you take it’s one reason i take the
first out of you often
um but then i could also take the piss
out of someone because i wanted to
i didn’t want to be fun or nice to that
person i might take the piss out of them
to
embarrass them in front of other people
to embarrass them that’s less common
but you might describe i might say oh
he was taking the piss out of her just
then yeah
and he was doing that on purpose to be
uh to embarrass her
i don’t know how you would work out what
the right application of this is yeah
that way
it’s embarrassing or um yeah so it’s not
usually a nice
it’s not a nice thing to take the piss
out of someone though in australia
we are often quite we joke around a lot
with our mates
and so it’s quite common for
friends or partners to take the piss out
of each other and have a laugh at each
other for sure
um i love can i just quickly read out
this example that i’ve just seen come in
from algeria
from our friend yousef who said in
algeria we use the word
pig for a man to say that
he’s very good at something for example
you’re a pig
that means you’ve got some skills wow
that is cool thank you
to pig he’s a pig man meaning he’s very
skilled at something
that’s so interesting because
because for us um
to say that someone is a pig it’s a
negative thing
for sure it’s like a woman would say
that about a man
sometimes yes what a pig like he doesn’t
look after himself or he
you know when he’s talk he’s eating he
talks and food sprays out of his mouth
that kind of thing but i like that
definition yeah i want to be yeah
yeah um i also wanted to call out
um williams comment he said
you can also crack a beer yes you can so
like you can crack an egg you can crack
an egg you can crack a beer
means to open the beer um it’s usually a
can
or in australian slang we would say
tinny
eating cracker you can crack a tinny so
definitely if you have a can of beer and
you’re with an australian you can say
just going to crack a tinny yes for sure
well done like it
um let’s move on to
uh to be up
up yourself or to say
i might say hey that guy is really
up himself yeah um i would say that
so if you maybe some of you know
the definition or the meaning of to be
stuck up to be stuck up
which means that you think you are
better than
other people okay um
and we also say that you are full of
yourself
your head is just full of yourself and
how great you are
these are these are very very um
uh common synonyms for
up himself or up herself
you wouldn’t normally talk about
yourself or someone that you’re
talking to i wouldn’t never i would
never say
mate you are up yourself unless i really
wanted to let that person know
that you’re being very arrogant right
now
and in australia we don’t like up
yourself i don’t actually know if this
is true
but i think it’s something to do with
your head is up
your bum your bottom you’re up yourself
i mean
like i think that’s what it means what
about stuck up though
stuck upside there’s a cork
i don’t know but up yourself so i would
say i would never
necessarily it would be very rare that i
would say to someone else
you’re up yourself mate um unless i
really wanted to make it known that i
think they were behaving in such a way
that
where they were so important compared to
everyone else but i might talk about
someone else
who is um i guess
we don’t really like this in australia
we like to be all kind of equal and
everybody sort of in the same kind of
area so we don’t really have this
so many levels kind of thing so it’s
funny here because
we don’t really like that so much so
when somebody is
parading around and being
saying how good they are and like i was
first to do this and i’ve written 15
books and i have a famous tv show
and my wife is the most beautiful one in
my car is so expensive my house is the
biggest and i’m the richest
we would say that guy’s up himself and
we’re
kind of like i don’t really want to talk
about you
we talk with you that much mate like
you’re a bit full of yourself yeah be
full of yourself yourself yes
just relax a little bit on that we think
you’re great too but you don’t have to
go around telling everybody
ralph was saying i don’t understand what
you are saying
but you both speak very well
that’s great yes this lesson or this
video today
is about australian slang so it’s very
particular
and um very challenging also for
other english learners other english
speakers
native english speakers to understand as
well
it’s one of my favorite things about
being an english teacher is
you get to work with and be around
a whole bunch of english speakers from
all around the world
and one of the best things that we do is
just argue about
the different ways that we express the
same idea
same language lots of different ways to
express the same idea
speaking of expressing ideas
differently the last two expressions
that i have
are both involving the word
not sheet like some of you had said
before
but which is i can just think of
that emoji
the little
uh somebody put it in the comments
someone put it in the comments so that
we know what we’re talking
about um but is definitely
very slang very informal for
um well poo
also informal um
but the two expressions that i want to
talk about
there we go image thank you
all right we’re on the same page guys
good we are on the same page
um so to
yourself sounds
really really bad
nobody wants to be around or involved in
that situation right
if you yourself obviously
oh what does that mean
and do you usually use that expression
regularly in australia
i think people do use it regularly in
friendship
amongst your friends you probably and
it’s like you’re showing you’re a
how did we say it it’s like you’re
scared
uh vulnerable you’re being vulnerable if
people use that word
um so i started claiming that i
stepped on stage to make my speech
there was 5 000 people there
and i was myself
that’s a great example um in fact me
before i go live on youtube yeah i’m
myself
my first youtube live with emma last
week
the last month the camera said
live and the clock was counting
and i shat myself
i did a little poo in my no i didn’t no
not really really i didn’t really do
that but that’s the feeling
guys right and this is believe it or not
this is
um if i was telling if we go and meet
our friends
uh tomorrow and we talk about how
nervous we were
how worried we were before we went live
on youtube
i would joke with them i would say i was
myself
i was really scared you might
yourself at a job interview
yes you might yourself um where
have you shut yourself before occasion
um i actually
when we launched you um like when i um
before when we’ve created a course for
your students
and we’re going to show the world
something that we’ve made and you don’t
know if it’s going to go very well
you kind of yourself like i don’t
know if this is going to work maybe they
won’t like it
there’s a bit of fear um there i don’t
understand how every week emma stands
and makes
videos for you guys in front of the
camera and doesn’t herself because
i would do that
okay we have to stop talking about this
now it’s feeling weird it’s too much
it’s too much you guys get the idea
um i love how someone before was saying
i’ve never sent anyone this emoji but
they did she did today that’s hilarious
three times in a row only here on
english guys this is the place
i’m glad we found a use for the the poo
emoji today
yes nice to see it here last expression
also related to yes is
to have the shits or
to give someone the shits
oh she’s giving me the shits yeah is
that a good thing that is not a good
thing
no no you don’t want to give anyone the
so in what
context would you say she’s giving me
the
shits oh and someone’s just annoying you
and they just don’t stop and you want to
be
um like i really want to go out and i
can’t use you as an example you don’t
really give me the shits but like say
example my sister no she’s watching
sometimes my sister gives me the shits
she always wants my attention
more than i’m prepared to give and then
gets all needy and
i think ah you’re giving me the oh
my god you’re getting into so much right
i’m getting in trouble
or i’m trying to rely i’m trying to do
my work and the puppy
won’t stop bothering me and she wants to
play and she wants to play and i’m like
i have to get this done please just
five minutes just five minutes just be
quiet
she keeps going and i say ah this dog is
giving me the shits
yeah go back to our first um
or second phrase if your
kid has cracked it they’re crying
they’re frustrated um they’re ruining
your day
then you could say my kid is giving me
the shits
like really annoying me it’s driving me
crazy
driving me nuts that came up before so
all of these are similar
expressions why do so many people in the
comments spell
with s-h-e-e-t but it’s s-h-i-t
is it because of how we’re saying it
it’s just a very
very this is a very common um sound
that gets confused by english learners
it’s a short vowel sound versus a long
vowel sound so is different
to sheet sheet i put on my
there like manuel goddigo i never
give my sheets to anybody to anyone
completely different meaning they’re
talking about the sheets or
yeah you would say i never give
the shits to anyone you would never say
my shits that that’s the puppy has
farted and it is crook
that dog is giving me the stop
making that smell
yes if khan it’s not sheet but
shorter vowel sound
i’m going to go through a couple more
that we got here and madonna is saying
yeah maybe it’s because it can’t be
typed in the comments
maybe everyone is writing it correctly
but it’s not
um a couple more here i just saw uh
just kira what’s the meaning of going
bush i will tell you going bush
means to go out into the wilderness into
the areas where there are no roads
and no buildings where it’s wild
vegetation trees grass etc
we’re going in bush in britain in the uk
they might say we’re going
to the countryside and in australia we
say
we’re going bush we are
um anna was saying is driving me crazy
also is when you like someone very much
yeah she drives me crazy like i love her
okay so yeah that question is about um
if someone uh is constantly in your
thoughts
and they’re driving you crazy you can’t
think about anything else
then yes it could be if you’re very in
love with someone they might be driving
you crazy
yes uh william rivera how about oh these
are quite australian ones i’ll
answer them for you super quickly what
about fair dinkum bloody oath dead
ringer okay
fair income means like somebody’s
actually serious about something that
made it
offer or they asked they are um genuine
about something real that’s real so say
hey
i’m going to give you five grand for
your car mate and we will say oh yeah
he’s fair dinkum like he’s
actually going to give you the 5 000 for
that car
bloody oath bloody oath i mean
absolutely
bloody oath um is like uh
hey are you guys gonna come on holiday
with us bloody oathmate
bloody oath i am um you taking the day
off you can chuck a sticky tomorrow so
we can all go fishing bloody yeah
oh yeah you come to my place for a
barbie mate gladio yeah so bloody oath
means absolutely i will definitely join
you i’ll definitely
do that thing dead ringer dead ringer
is when um uh last month somebody said
um called me nicholas cage now i don’t
think that i’m a dead ringer for
nicholas
but somebody out there did so somebody
thought that i
look like look exactly like nicholas
cage maybe there’s someone that you
think that emma
looks just like for example
what’s someone someone said about you
who are you dead pregnant for
you don’t know one do you if anyone has
one who’s another dead ringer
it’s when one person looks like another
person where we say
she is a dead ringer for that person
yeah if you look like someone else
you’re a dead bringer for them yep and
last one i’ve got here’s nachio says
yeah in usa use the word piss a lot for
the word
piss up which is often a party or a
place where people will be drinking lots
of alcohol and they call it a piss-up i
think
yeah um that’s definitely one that is
not unique to australia
um a piss up is um
is a party so really just like we were
talking about the word
pissed to be pissed it can mean to be
angry but it can also mean to be really
drunk lots of alcohol
and so a piss up is a party or an event
where everyone is drinking lots of
alcohol
eduardo says she looks like an angel oh
sh but that doesn’t matter for an angel
dead ringer means you have to pick
someone like um well i gave you my
example
i don’t know who else people said that
you look like wasn’t did you supposed to
say you look like the princess
kate no someone like that someone did
that once
yeah i wouldn’t call it a dead ringer
but maybe
she’s also very beautiful yes yeah
doppelganger yep dude
exactly right double doppelganger
yep yes yes all right good all right
um to get the ball rolling indira
means to get started with something um
we definitely got the ball rolling early
on with
10 expressions slang expressions
from australia that are useful if you
know any australians you may hear them
using some of these things of course
all slang expressions are very very
informal and um
used definitely used amongst friends but
here in australia i would say that some
of these are
even used in the workplace um because
we tend to be quite informal even in our
workplaces as well
yes we do um if any of you have
questions
about these expressions let me know in
the comments i’m going to jump
straight off this live video and put a
big list
of the 10 expressions that we talked
about today
in the description of the video so if
you’re a little unsure about if i said
sheet or then you can double check
and i’ll put a couple of example
sentences in there as well
um thank you so much to all of you for
joining live
i know that it was quite an interesting
lesson um not a usual
english lesson at all it was definitely
um
a little different thank you again to
sha for
helping me out and for her coming on
board
and um going through some of the
different contexts in which we use these
expressions no worries mate
no worries at all like i said as
strange as it sounds all 10 of these
expressions are very
very common in everyday australian
english
so um very interesting
thank you so much to everyone for
joining us thank you to
kailyn for helping us out in the
comments and
um we will see you back here live on
english next month but of course
new video out next week so i will see
you
there thanks everyone thanks for joining
us today
see you guys have a great day