Colloquialisms your Dad used to use...or still uses

Cold blood has a few…

After someone did a rather pungent fart:
I think a goanna crawled up his ■■■■ and died.

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Busy as a dog with 2 dikks.

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Silly as a sack of wet Mice.

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Thick as 2 short planks.

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Dry as a Nuns…

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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

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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.

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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”.

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The original was “full as a public school dunny” - this was in the days before septic tanks and sewers.

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Full as a Pommy complaint box

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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.

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Been sold a Pup.

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For the Greeks here:
Το γαϊδούρι είπε το πετεινό κεφάλα

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Spon doolas or Spondoolies was/is the way I always hear & use it.

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Not worth a c*** full of cold water.

(1st boss, the Old man would never)

Hell and Tommy!

Went by the wayside.