Cold blood has a few…
After someone did a rather pungent fart:
I think a goanna crawled up his ■■■■ and died.
Busy as a dog with 2 dikks.
Silly as a sack of wet Mice.
Thick as 2 short planks.
Dry as a Nuns…
Slight deviation, but back when I played footy, the coach would say “and if you’re defending, I want you to play tighter than a nuns…”
Drier than Gandhi’s flip flop
When we were in a hrry to get going, " Home James and don’t spare the horses!" I still use it. I think dad borrowed it from an old Sherlock Holmes movie, l can easily imagine Basil Rathbone saying it.
My old man used to beat his to death…
Going past a cemetery, “people are dying to get in here” or “this is the dead centre of town”.
If you rolled in with your glasses on, “you’re making a spectacle of yourself”.
The original was “full as a public school dunny” - this was in the days before septic tanks and sewers.
Full as a Pommy complaint box
ive told you a thousand times do not exaggerate
Spindoolas, as a colloquial term for money.
He also pronounces “Stereo” as ‘Steerio’. ■■■■■ me off to no end.
Been sold a Pup.
For the Greeks here:
Το γαϊδούρι είπε το πετεινό κεφάλα
Spon doolas or Spondoolies was/is the way I always hear & use it.
Not worth a c*** full of cold water.
(1st boss, the Old man would never)
Hell and Tommy!
Went by the wayside.