Appendix:Australian English colloquial similes

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mad as a cut snake or as cross as a frog in a sock - angry
built like a brick shit house - big and strong
busy as a cat burying shit or flat out like a lizard drinking - flat out, busy- busy, flat out
cunning as a dunny rat - cunning
dry as a dead dingo's donger or dry as a nun's nasty - dry
fit as a Mallee bull - fit and strong; Mallee being very arid beef country in Victoria/South Australia
hungry enough to eat the ass out of a low flying duck - expression of hunger
grinning like a shot fox - happy, smugly satisfied
shoot through like a Bondi tram - to leave
see a man about a dog - apology for leaving to urinate
mean as cat's piss - mean, stingy, uncharitable
stands out like dog's balls or stands out like a shag on a rock - obvious
crook as Rookwood - sick; used in Sydney in reference to Rookwood Necropolis [1]
slow as a wet week - slow
useful as an ashtray on a motorbike or useful as tits on a bull - unhelpful or incompetent person or thing
off like bride's nightie - leave quickly
off like a bucket of prawns in the noonday sun - farewell said on leaving
"doing a Nellie or Farnham" - frequent farewell at the end of the evening. Nellie Melba was famous for her concerts that were advertised as her farewell shows every time she left Australia or Johnny Farnham Farewell tour

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