Favorite colloquialisms? Or maybe, Colloqualisms: POV

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"go play in traffic"
"buzz off"
"quahog"
"a face only a mother could love on payday"
"dumb as dirt"

― Ian John50n (orion), Thursday, 19 May 2005 22:13 (twenty-one years ago)

"don't take any wooden nickles"

― strng hlkngtn, Thursday, 19 May 2005 22:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Face made for radio

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 19 May 2005 22:24 (twenty-one years ago)

M. White's is my favorite too. But I prefer leaving out the "made" -- just "He's got a face for radio."

― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 19 May 2005 22:31 (twenty-one years ago)

"don't take any wooden nickles"

-- strng hlkngtn (jac...), May 19th, 2005.

I also like "Don't spend it all in one place."

― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 19 May 2005 22:33 (twenty-one years ago)

"busy as a one-legged man in a butt kicking contest."

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Thursday, 19 May 2005 22:44 (twenty-one years ago)

"they treat you like a red-headed step-child"

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 19 May 2005 22:58 (twenty-one years ago)

"...like a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs."

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 19 May 2005 22:59 (twenty-one years ago)

"Put wood in'th' 'ole" (Close the door)
"Wast thou born int' barn?" (Close the door)
"It's like Blackpool bloomin' Illuminations in 'ere" (Turn some lights off)

― On one hand I've got myself to blame (Lynskey), Thursday, 19 May 2005 22:59 (twenty-one years ago)

"dumber than a roomful of hair"

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 19 May 2005 23:01 (twenty-one years ago)

dan rather to thread

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 19 May 2005 23:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Australians rule at colloquialisms:

"don't come the raw prawn"
"a fair suck of the sav"

― rainy (rainy), Thursday, 19 May 2005 23:17 (twenty-one years ago)

what am i, chopped liver?

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Thursday, 19 May 2005 23:19 (twenty-one years ago)

dumber than a box of hair

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Thursday, 19 May 2005 23:19 (twenty-one years ago)

whoa, i missed the roomful of hair! sorry!

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Thursday, 19 May 2005 23:20 (twenty-one years ago)

"funny as a bit of string"

― rainy (rainy), Thursday, 19 May 2005 23:23 (twenty-one years ago)

"faster than shit through a goose"

― A homunculus of Darby Crash, .... created for the purposes of *EVIL* (ex machina, Friday, 20 May 2005 03:40 (twenty-one years ago)

"carry on like a pork chop" (Ally seemed to like that one!)
"a face like a hatful of arses"
"Jesus H Christ on a pogo stick/on a bike/etc etc"

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 20 May 2005 04:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Dan Ratherisms: The Wit and Wisdom of Dan Rather

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 20 May 2005 06:11 (twenty-one years ago)

"Your eyes look like two pee holes in the snow." ("You look tired/hung over.") I think this is a Minnesota-ism.

― daria g (daria g), Friday, 20 May 2005 06:57 (twenty-one years ago)

"a face like a hatful of arses"
roffle

― lukey (Lukey G), Friday, 20 May 2005 07:49 (twenty-one years ago)

My dad actually sez a hatful of bums, but I figured some people might misinterpret what that meant hehe.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 20 May 2005 08:30 (twenty-one years ago)

My favourite Australian example: "I'm not 'ere to fuck spiders!"

― Oblivious Lad. (Oblivious Lad), Friday, 20 May 2005 08:36 (twenty-one years ago)

tongue the dags

latch on to the ring tail

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 20 May 2005 08:54 (twenty-one years ago)

fumble the red belly

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 20 May 2005 08:55 (twenty-one years ago)

tuck in for the poo root

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 20 May 2005 08:56 (twenty-one years ago)

bangs like a dunny door in the wind

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 20 May 2005 08:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Goes up and down more than a whores knickers (this one I use a lot about networks I work with. It doesnt seem to go over too well, I wonder why)

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 20 May 2005 09:02 (twenty-one years ago)

"a face like a hatful of arses"

Similar to my favourite "face like a smacked arse"

― Matt (Matt), Friday, 20 May 2005 09:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Face like a blind cobbler's thumb

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 20 May 2005 09:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Face like a bulldog licking piss off a nettle

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 20 May 2005 09:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh that reminds me of one:

face like a cats arse.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 20 May 2005 10:02 (twenty-one years ago)

and of course the marvellous

"face like a BAG OF SPANNERS"

― Matt (Matt), Friday, 20 May 2005 10:04 (twenty-one years ago)

tuck in for the poo root

What in the HELL does that one mean gaz!? Never heard it! Some bonza aussie I am.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 20 May 2005 10:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Aikea-Guinea [/obscure Scottish Gaelic made not-so-obscure by Elizabeth Fraser]

― ... And suddenly Ian Riese-Moraine is a naked man saying, 'Volvo! Volvo!' (Easte, Friday, 20 May 2005 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

thirteen years pass...

Okay: how would y'all go about transcribing that one utterance where like a languid, disinterested tween shrugs their shoulders and, with downcast eyes, says 'I dunno' except where all three syllables are just one long modulated 'uuUUuh'? I feel like there's a really obvious answer to this question but it's eluding me.

― Soupy Slacks (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 20 March 2019 14:17 (seven years ago)

great revive

― i'm w/ tato, super hot AND weird!! (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 20 March 2019 14:19 (seven years ago)

OTM

― Soupy Slacks (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 20 March 2019 14:26 (seven years ago)

"AONO"

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 20 March 2019 14:35 (seven years ago)

That's pretty good but the slightly more enunciated variation of the utterance I'm thinking of. Imagine that the speaker is being grilled about why he/she didn't turn in that book report and can't be bothered to muster up the barest hint of a coherent phoneme in response, and possibly distractedly fiddling with the zipper on their hoodie.

― Soupy Slacks (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 20 March 2019 14:41 (seven years ago)

If a conversation of this nature takes place within a domicile of some sort, the utterance in question is usually repeated several times and is eventually followed by the slam of a bedroom door and an entreaty from the other party (possibly prefixed with 'FOR THE LAST TIME') to not slam doors. Hope that helps.

― Soupy Slacks (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 20 March 2019 14:49 (seven years ago)

(Also music, played at an excessive volume, can usually be heard through the closed bedroom door, which is not uncommonly adorned with a sign reading 'NO PARENTS ALLOWED'.)

― Soupy Slacks (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 20 March 2019 14:51 (seven years ago)

That's pretty good but the slightly more enunciated variation of the utterance I'm thinking of

I know but I'm at a loss for how to register the way the vowel is briefly nasalized in an insultingly lazy gesture at pronouncing an "N," i'm sure there's something in the international phonetic alphabet for this

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 20 March 2019 15:24 (seven years ago)

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