8:39 Joey saying Australian slang with a Japanese accent is absolutely hilarious 😆

@jimmydoublehugh9624

Жыл бұрын

Fair suck of the sav should be a jojo line.

@wchan39

2 ай бұрын

There needs to be more of Japanese people saying Australian slangs.

I've never heard "I feel like piss and vinager" but I've definitely heard "full of piss and vinager". Usually it's in a sentence like "he's a young man, still full of piss and vinager" meaning he's still full of energy and optimism. Like the new young kid at work who still cares alot and has ideas of how to make things better, before he's beat down by upper management.

@tedweird

Жыл бұрын

Probably just a further corruption, since the original (or at least a previous step) is 'vim and vigor'

@NexSicarius

Жыл бұрын

Wow, you perfectly summed up my experience at my first desk job at the end there. 🤣

@Iron_Heinrich

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for saying what I've wanted to say ever since I heard them talk about it on Trash Taste 🤣

@bulletproofKevlar

Жыл бұрын

essentiaslly that feeling of having to piss or that shock of sour ..a form of alertness

@Tchernobog11

Жыл бұрын

Yep, this is the version I know of (as a near 40 year old). I'd never heard of Sydney's version.

"I don't hold a hose" was coined by Scott Morrison, as his excuse for being on holidays during the worst bushfires in a decade. It's basically a poor excuse for copping out of something that IS your job.

@orenburg6318

Жыл бұрын

The individual states kicked up a few years ago that they could hold their own hoses, they didnt want to admit they needed help from federal- with some states refusing military support till it was past their capability. I'm not a fan of scomo, but it really wasnt his hose to hold.

@iluvanimeandcats

Жыл бұрын

I never clicked that before now 😂 Between this and Scomo shitting himself at a Maccas he's an icon for all the wrong reasons

I've never specifically heard "A few beers short of a six-pack", but there are a lot of phrases used in America that are essentially the same thing. Like "He's a few cards short of a full deck" for example

@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley

Жыл бұрын

"A few fries short of a Happy Meal," though given I saw this on a sign held by a homeless man, he may have been referring to money and not his sense 😅

@vdeave

Жыл бұрын

"A few sandwiches short of a picnic"

@colinmathie2710

Жыл бұрын

@@vdeave Not the sharpest tool in the toolbox.

@naonao9528

Жыл бұрын

I definitely have heard a few beers short of a sixpack in the Midwest.

@DarkFireBlade25

Жыл бұрын

Dude is short a patty on his big Mac is the one I know.

“I don’t hold a hose mate” was said by the Prime Minister during the 2019 bush fires because he refused to offer help and even went on holiday to Hawaii during one of the countries worst natural disasters in history. It’s a term used when you don’t want to help someone in a mocking way and is seen as disrespectful

“For shits and giggles” is VERY common in America. Even i have said it once in awhile. It a kinda old phrase. Ive started hearing it in the 90’s but it could be older than that.

My Australian friend told me about Drop-bears years ago and I believed him 100%. I thought he was just excited to share his culture with me and I appreciated having this fun quirky knowlege about Australian wildlife but to find out years later that he was just trolling me. The fact that he just let me believe it for years is really hilarious.

@KuroRyuu86

Жыл бұрын

We are major trolls when it comes to aussie wildlife

@lukedudgeon8699

Жыл бұрын

Yes, we tell people of drop bears. Then they don't believe us. Then, there's more food for the drop bears.....

@jeng3805

Жыл бұрын

When you go bushwalking, rub some Vegemite behind your ears, keeps the drop-bears away

@wolfbanee

Жыл бұрын

The fact you were told that you were trolled was the true trolling, as drop bears are a very real danger here

@genshingacha

Жыл бұрын

Yeah. Be extra careful, or the drop bears will get you

„I‘m not here to fuck spiders.“ said by Art Simone was my favorite aussie saying

@chroma-agogo

Жыл бұрын

Not here to put socks on centipedes

@theresamushroomonmyshirt7783

Жыл бұрын

ah, yes. the true australian experience. *fucking spiders*

@NekoBoyOfficial

Жыл бұрын

Unless it's Angel Dust.

I'm a kiwi, and I've heard almost all of these. We've even stolen a few of them for ourselves. Kind of like how Australians stole Crowded House 😂😂 I have to say though, "Flat out like a lizard drinking" and "stone the crows" are some of the most Australian phases there are! Please do another video with Aussie slang.

@VelvetCake423

Жыл бұрын

yeah because of how close we are, a lot of aussie and kiwi slang is the same save for things like 'jandal' and 'chilly bin' that seems uniuqely kiwi

@amb1u5

Жыл бұрын

busy as a centipede skipping etc lol

@sans7591

Жыл бұрын

wait,....YOU"RE A BIRD?

@VelvetCake423

Жыл бұрын

@@sans7591 yup. sqawk

@angeldunedin

Жыл бұрын

Yeah "spit the dummy" is fairly common in Kiwiland.

To me, the most often I have ever heard, or read, the phrase “full of piss and vinegar” was usually referring to horses. Usually horses full of piss and vinegar are hard to train horses because they are wild, hotheaded, and stubborn. So I think of someone/something having a temper when hearing that phrase.

@HouseMDaddict

Жыл бұрын

Yup that's what the term has been used for in my neck of the woods too. Like they're irritable and unpleasant

@PowerSynopsis

Жыл бұрын

Whenever I've said that someone is full of piss and vinegar I was referencing that they're acting like an asshole.

@Juror63

Жыл бұрын

This is one of the best descriptions so far.

@embermoto

Жыл бұрын

Same when my cat's are running out the house causing havoc, grandparents will comment that they "sure are full of piss and vinegar today"

I wonder what percentage of his audience is actually Australian

@ThrasherMurat

Жыл бұрын

69

@deadfr0g

Жыл бұрын

93

@someguy6538

Жыл бұрын

@@deadfr0g good one

@someguy6538

Жыл бұрын

@@ThrasherMurat nice

@jornavyr2459

Жыл бұрын

Probs not many. We're usually vastly outnumbered by Americans, Europeans and Asians.

I think here in Scotland we say "pulling a sickie", which I guess is similar to "chucking a sickie". So I got that one right. I knew "few beers short of a six pack", I thought everyone knew what that meant.

@HouseMDaddict

Жыл бұрын

Yeah everyone knows the "a few (insert item here)s short of a (insert group of items here).

I think "full of piss and vinegar" is a bastardization of the saying "full of vim and vigor" which also means feeling full of energy and optimism

As an Australian, the best part of our dumb slang words is discovering new ones and rotating them through your daily lexicon. "We're not here to fuck spiders" is my go to atm

I’m an Aussie who moved to New Zealand and I love getting my boyfriend with weird words and phrases we say. Recent ones have been whipper snipper (weed whacker) and washer (face cloth) 😂 He also never understands when I say "six of one, half a dozen of another" (meaning that two things are much the same)

@shiftyy2786

Жыл бұрын

I’m Canadian and I realize we use a lot of Australian slang here! “Pulling a u-ey” “whipper snipper” “full of piss and vinegar” etc 😂

@MxPotato84

Жыл бұрын

In America, whipper snapper is what old people call annoying young people. Lol

@jonv0

Жыл бұрын

American here. My mom likes to say "six of one, half a dozen of another" a lot and the common response for most of my family is "same difference".

The level of confusion I have after hearing those slangs cannot be properly conveyed. What in the hell.

I wonder if it would be too easy for Joey to guess US slang? You could both try UK slang

@thevictoryoverhimself7298

Жыл бұрын

US is kind of unfair because they consume so much American media from a young age

@undauntedtheoni

Жыл бұрын

He spends his time with 2 Brit’s

@carboncomposit

Жыл бұрын

A lot of this is UK slang too

@danni6257

Жыл бұрын

@@carboncomposit Ah, thank you 😅

@jornavyr2459

Жыл бұрын

American slang is easy, because nearly all of pop culture is American.

Man I love that this channel partly just evolved into the old school Anime Man channel

Piss and vinegar is like when you're full of energy but really really irritable. Rage energy/sass spectrum.

@anthonynelson6671

Жыл бұрын

Native US English speaker here and was also completely unaware of what that specific idiom means.

@enrikozartajuz9702

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, that is always the connotation in which I've used the phrase. Less "optimistic" energy and more rowdy.

@EnhancedTrashBin

Жыл бұрын

Idk which part of America you're from but here in CA never heard of anyone say that.

@kyuubipie8279

Жыл бұрын

@@EnhancedTrashBin I’m in central California and have heard it a few times. “Oh she’s just full of piss and vinegar” to describe someone rowdy and maybe has attitude.

The fact that "I dont hold a hose, mate" is on the list is hilarious to me. For context - when we had the Black Summer bushfires a few years ago (one of the worst bushfire seasons we have ever had here in Aus) our Prime Minister of the time said that line as an excuse for why he wasnt doing more to help effected communities. Essentially telling people it wasnt his problem.

As a Brit I understood most of them because we say the same thing. Captain Cook is also Cockney rhyming slang for 'take a look.' We say these ones in the UK: quick squiz, done myself a mischief, chuck a sickie (though more commonly ‘throw a sickie’ or ‘take a sickie’), for shits and giggles, spitting the dummy, have a Captain Cook, and stone the crows (or ‘stone me’). These are pure Aussie: fuck me dead (though we do say ‘fuck me’ or ‘fuck me backwards’ a lot), flat out like a lizard drinking (we’d just say ‘flat out’), a few beers short of a six pack (we’re more likely to say ‘a few planks short’ or ‘a few bricks short of a wall’), I don’t hold a hose, when’s smoko, fair suck of the sav, and bonza. I’m kinda surprised ‘you great galah’ wasn’t in there 😄

6:11 Aki may have been looking for “brightest crayon in the box”

our boi Joey arranging a secret Australian pre-marriage interview. respect.

@wchan39

9 ай бұрын

So basically an Omiai with an Aussie twist?

The "a few beers short of a six pack" is slightly similar to a one phrase that we have in México "Le falta 20 pal peso" (it lacks 20 to a dollar, its the most accurate that i can translate) and it's the same concept.

More Aussie movies to show Aki if she hasn't seen them already: "Priscilla queen of the desert" and "The dressmaker"

@sweetarchangel6748

Жыл бұрын

And the ballroom dancing one.

"Busted a plugga" has got to be my favourite Aussie slang.

I've always understood full of piss and vinegar to mean someone was energetic, but in a very angry and agressive way. Like: "That dog keeps growling and biting at everyone who comes near it, it's full of piss and vinegar!"

5:53 - I've used "A few fries short of a Happy Meal" to say someone "ain't right." Also "A few cards short of a deck," and "missing a few crayons in a box"

I'm American, my family uses the term "full of piss and vinegar" often. When they say it they're usually referring to someone young and full of vigor, willing to do things that older people can't or wouldn't do because of their youth and energy. For example, " yeah, well when your 20 and full of piss and vinegar it's not hard to hike up the side of a mountain." Or " If I was his age and full of piss and vinegar, I would (insert dangerous but iconic activity here)."

Full of piss and vinegar means to be full of aggressive energy (i.e. ready for a fight or competition) Also, it's mostly used in the mid-west.

Joey, depending on the part of America the 2 compatible phrases are full of piss and vinegar and full of vim and vigor. They both mean pretty much the same. The meaning is actually antsy or on edge in a decidedly positive way. Think of someone half asleep given a vinegar shooter or someone who has to take a piss so bad and can't into the bathroom so is steadily hopping or shifting in place ... ancxious energy overload looking forward to reaching that goal whether it be your place at the urinal or just reaching the moment when the vinegar taste goes away and you're still at that somewhat natural energy high you've reached. We have a lot of weird phrases in this country ... 1. "Take it up the tailpipe" means to get ripped off. 2. "Put your two cents in" means to get your honest opinion on something. 3. "Spend a dime" is a saying among older americans meaning go to the bathroom. A dime (10 cents) used to be the cost to use a sitdown public toilet. 4. "I can't even" means there's no way I'm taking that BS or agreeing with doing that. 5. Depending on where you live in the country we call hoagie's, grinders, subs/submarine sandwiches, etc all by different names despite them being the same product. Meat/vegetables in a soft or toasted 10-12" baguette-style roll/bun. 6. "Come hell or high water" means to do something no matter what the risk. There are 1000s upon 1000s of sayings/terminology differences across the country here. Even though we're one country we were settled by different nationalities in different regions of the country each of which develeoped different cultures of their own. It's why despite being one country America is easier to look at as 50+ different cultues. No 2 states have the same exact style/culture.

I've only ever heard "wow, he's full of piss and vinegar today" and it usually described a person who was on a rampage and had high energy. Like they're out to get someone with uncontrolled energy/rage and being nasty to everyone that gets in their way.

@Juror63

Жыл бұрын

This is a good description.

I’ve only ever heard piss and vinegar to kind of mean wanting to fight, or full of agression… and usually it’s someone referring to others. I’ve never heard someone say “I’m full of piss and vinegar.”

Aki would have to go into the south to find confusing slang from the states 😂

I love videos like this, its so funny to see non-Australians guess Australian slang 😂

The phrase is "full of piss and vinegar," and it means to be full of energy, or raring to go. It's a southern US expression from the early 1900's. Vinegar at the time was seen as medicinal, used when one was low energy. The original phrase was actually "full of pep and vinegar." But, southerners being southerners, they bastardized it to "full of piss and vinegar" because they liked it better, and that's the phrase that stuck. My grandmother would use this phrase constantly (born in 1913), but it's fallen out of common usage now. Source: Am a linguist who often has to teach etymology of colloquial American English to non-native speakers.

@juanca6274

Жыл бұрын

Source: trust me* 😂 JK bro. Ty for sharing your knowledge :)

@leahnardo

Жыл бұрын

If you want better sources, look no further than John Steinbeck using both the original and the southern modified first in In Dubious Battle in 1936, then just “piss and vinegar” in Grapes of Wrath in 1940. We sadly don’t have any more documented sources earlier than this, but it was considered common usage by that time. Idiomatic history can be so fun!

@juanca6274

Жыл бұрын

@@leahnardo Learning about history and linguistics is pretty fun!

"Full of piss & vinegar" is usually an older persons slang, more so from the Silent Generation on to the Boomers . My dads used it a couple of times & his dad before him.

Stone the Crows is an old British saying but you don’t really hear it much. I only know it because it’s a Roots Manuva song, it’s pretty great.

Knew two of these from when the Internet Historian was on the SumitoMedia podcast. "Suck of the sav" probably stems from "Fair suck of the sauce bottle", more frequently expressed as a "Fair shake of the sauce bottle".

Great video Joey, nice seeing you with Aki on your channel

Always enjoying another banger video of joey and aki and I'm glad I subbed to all trashtaste members on KZread and Chris abroad and the gang hope u reeeach 2mil sub's soon

These phrases are courtesy of my dad who grew up in the rural areas of the northeast in the 60s and 70s, maybe some are just english in general: "It's raining like a cow pissing on a flat rock."(pretty self-explanatory) "Fixed their little Red Wagon" "Dime a dozen" "That's the last straw" "Full of/what a load of balony/beans/bananas" "Maybe once in a blue moon" "I'm having a ball" " It's freedom of speech" "Nice french" "Like finding a needle in a haystack" "What a Stick in the mud" "Stop being a Chicken/*makes chicken noises*" "Living the American dream" "Let's not open that can of worms" "'Wait" 's (As in weight's) what broke the wagon wheel" "What crawled up your ass and died?" "No shi!t sherlock" "Suck it up" And a few more. :'D

As a northern Brit, a fair few of these are used here too. Especially throwing a sickie

In Wisconsin, or the midwest in general, "welp, I suppose, it's about that time." means we're going to keep talking for another hour before actually leave. The phrase may be repeated multiple times in one convo.

Dude I am so team aki on this one, Australia slang/English is so hard

@DhaniC369

Жыл бұрын

Australian english is 90% slang 😆

@Null041

Жыл бұрын

@@DhaniC369 not really, just the unique words tend to be slang

6:00 we have a similar one in the US. "He's a few french fries short of a happy meal."

Not heard a lot of them but knowing Cockney helped decipher them as theres a lot of similarities between it and Aussie, that being said my Mrs is from only 150 miles north and I struggle with her slang sometimes.

I always associated the phrase "full of piss and vinegar" with someone that's being routy or angry, like if a child is misbehaving and throwing a tantrum, I would say, "they sure are full of piss and vinegar today"

Hey man I have always been like a big fan of yours and I feel so glad to say that there was like 1 or 2 bits of slang that I hadn’t been feeling quite sure about but then again I have been spending at least 80% of my great years through life chillin like a villain around Western Australia so yeah big thanks for the awesome entertainment bro! ✌️😎

Aus and NZ slang goes over so many heads I love being a part of it

I've heard and used most of these like a chuck a sickie but there were some like the Sav one I have not heard before

Throw back sometimes I really miss quiz videos

I think "Piss and Vinegar" changes based on where you live? Like where I am in the lower midwest it means like feisty or being ready to fight at a moments notice. But I have heard it used differently throughout the states.

He's a weird thing for me, when people say the line, "before we start the video", when it comes to being sponsored by something, after it's been, quite literally, a minute or two, of the literal beginning of the show itself.

A Sav is a type of sausage. You can buy Battered Savs from most fish and chip shops, which is basically a deep fried sausage. I usually hear the saying as "Fair Suck of the Sauce bottle" Kevin Rudd famously said it in when he was Prime minister.

Captain Cook - Look (rhyming slang - even I as a Brit guessed this one, a cockney would say "Butchers" or "Butchers Hook" for Look)

Piss and vinegar usually has a bad connotation. Usually used in terms of someone hyped up to get into a fight or an argument.

Full of piss and vinegar is quite a common American phrase. Means you are full of energy, spirited or just high on life essentially. I've heard of a couple of those Aussie phrases, one of which I'm positive was in the movie Crocodile Dundee.

We have similar expressions to the one at 3:07 in American English. They might be more common (and probably less vulgar) in the South.

In America it would be like "That little kid right there is full of piss and vinegar". Meaning a high strung kid. But if we don't really say we feel like piss and vinegar, the saying goes "something" is full of piss and vinegar.

The usage of "Fuck me dead" can be the Aussie version of "Fuck me sideways" to be completely honest.

Love the video and keep up the great work joey

Im Aussie and i use a few of these. I only didnt know 2 of these, but some may be only popular in certain states.

The hose thing was unfortunately popularised by former Prime Minister Scott Morrisson (in)famously not doing *anything* during the bushfires, at the time. Victims were telling him to take action and all he could say was "I don't hold a hose".

I feel like depending on where you live in Australia, the slang changes. I haven’t heard of some of the phrases mentioned, but I've heard similar variations (e.g flat out like a lizard drinking, people say flat tack where i live).

@itrickyalove

Жыл бұрын

I grew up with flat chat and running around like a headless chook

I've heard "full of piss and vinegar". Usually referring to a troublemaker or prankster or a rowdy animal or something lol

Aki needs revenge: She should dig up slang phrases in Taglish (read: call Mom!) and have Joey guess the meanings.

Fabulous video, Joseph and Agnes!

I'm a kiwi and I knew some of those since we also use them but some of them I've never heard of and I've lived in Australia for a few years and visited plenty.

I searched up piss and vinegar, and it's from John Steinbeck's "In dubious battle" supposedly. Vinegar is was thought of as vitality things and piss is a crude way to say "pep".

I have heard "fair suck of the sauce bottle" before. Agree with most I have heard before but not really used.

i have heard some of these before especially "stone the crows" which i hear a lot and used in the uk. i do feel like some of these are british too.

America also has the "shits and giggles one. I'm almost 30 and I've known that one my whole life.

Ah, so nice to have these videos again :)

can we get more of joey dropping australian slang in the impression of his own mom?

I hope the Nonsense shirt Joey was wearing in the ad comes out soon, it looks really cool

Spitting the dummy in my family basically means when someone’s in a huff because things don’t go the way they want so it’s like throwing a fit (I’m from England to be clear) and a few of these I’ve used on the daily or something similar like pulling a sickie for example

Amazing video Joey, fantastic job.

i hear 'have a captain cook' allll time from my dad. surprises me when others are familiar with it lol

Y'all should try to decipher southern US slang. Some of that stuff is incomprehensible

@Shadowlurkering

Жыл бұрын

That nader just tearing up stuff, meanwhile them jackoffs busy lollygaggin over yonder.

great video love your stuff!!!

Joey have you ever considered doing some business Insider japan type stuff , that type of content mixed with your style and cultural understanding would pop off, love big dawg

So as an American that's family uses a lot of older, and some Southern, slang I have heard of "Piss and vinegar", but it usually means like grouchy. I haven't heard it used in the way you were talking about. From what I know it's kind of like "oh aren't you just a ray sunshine". You could also say "his face looks like piss and vinegar" to mean that he doesn't look like a pleasant person or currently in a pleasant mood. Though something to keep in mind, many parts of the US have different slang or sometimes another meaning for the same slang. Especially with something older like this. With the older ones it's kind of like a game of telephone.

Similar to U.K. slang, didn’t know most of them but I could work them out. The captain cook one is similar to Cockney rhyming slang. I’m England we would say have a butchers hook

The phrase 'piss and vinegar' in the UK comes from the history of some drinking establishments that served low quality alcohol. For instance, if you make wine poorly the end product can end up being a form of vinegar. A common suspicion that people have if the drink doesn't taste quite right is that something has been mixed into the barrel. For instance I have accused off tasting beers at certain events of being pumped 'directly from the urinals'. As such I would use the expression 'it tastes like piss and vinegar' as an insult to a drinks quality. I think I managed to understand about half the phrases since a lot of the words used and to a certain extent the phrases themselves seemed to coincide with those from the UK.

The Aussie twist on " shits and giggles" is definitely "shits and gigs"

As an American, like Aki, I haven’t ever heard the piss vinegar phrase - ever! But great video guys! Such a fun watch!

As a Brit, some of the slang is shared over here - I have both used and heard others use “take a quick squiz” before. Some is pure Aussie though, but I’m not sure if I’m familiar with it because when I was a small child a lot of Aussie kids tv was also shown on cbbc for a while.

@Scoobay

Жыл бұрын

I remember round the twist but I’ve never heard anyone say quick squiz. Maybe it’s regional in the UK.

@Actuallyadogperson

Жыл бұрын

​@@Scoobay There was also Ocean Odyssey (Wikipedia says it's called Ocean Girl in Australia) and a couple of others that I don't remember the names of. Have a squiz/take a quick squiz is absolutely not a very common phrase in places I've lived (mostly the South West but also Scotland) by any means, but it's definitely used.

As an Aussie, there are a few here that I have never heard of - like "bonza" and "having a captain cook". We either add a Y, IE or EY to most words - either to shorten or lengthen them. The "I don't hold a hose" one was from our previous shithead "prime minister". We use it to mean "It ain't our job" and yes, it's quite new, only a few years old.

I grew up with "Fuck me runnin''!" I said it in front of newer friends once and they laughed their asses off. Also grew up with "For shits n giggles" too.

@cassandralyris4918

Жыл бұрын

As for "Full of Piss and Vinegar" it's a slang term taken from "Full of vim and vigor". Hope that clears that up. Look at me, putting that English degree to work afterall.

Fair suck of the sav: sav is short for saveloy, which is a kind of sausage. It still doesn’t make sense though. Kevin Rudd said it. Also related: fair suck of the sauce (bottle). Same meaning, to have a fair go. This Aussie slang is coming back, so please start using it! Moot. Slang for lady parts, rhymes with put, is hugely amusing to use in a sentence. I think we’d use “squiz” the most out of the ones you listed.

4:34 - it's also not uncommon for someone to chuck a sickie because they were on the turps(drinking). 8:35 - Also common to hear is "fair suck of the sauce bottle" which makes even less sense because what kind of monster sucks on a sauce bottle (although being "on the sauce" is a reference to alcohol so maybe). More common to hear the simpler "fair go mate". 10:54 - Are you sure it wasn't "full of piss and vinegar"? I've read that it derives from an older slang meaning of vinegar for enthusiastic energy. I first remember hearing it from Band of Brothers so it counts as an Americanism. I think that's the major difference between American sayings any others, Everyone gets to hear American sayings through media.

Take a Captain Cook (Having a Quick look) sounds a lot like British Cockney rhyming slang (Check with Mr. Affable if he knows?)

Full of piss and vinegar is pretty common in the north of Canada. We use it for when a kid or a critter gets all riled up. It's a phrase you use when someone else's excitment is an inconvenience for you.

I think the pissing vinegar thing must be regional in the US because I’ve never heard it in the South or West.

To be fair "Have a Captain Cook" for have a quick look, is basically like an American asking for your john hancock to get a signature, if you dont know the history of the country that ones going to be hard.

The bulb one is not the brightest bulb in the shed though others will use box or pack instead of shed. Personally the one I’ve heard a lot growing up is not the sharpest knife in the drawer. There’s so many phrases out there to say that someone is stupid. Dumb as a rock is another I’ve heard a lot. Other idioms I’ve heard growing up (a good deal of these are food themed btw) is that’s a kettle of fish, sour grapes, have bigger fish to fry, take it with a grain of salt, tough nut to crack, the big cheese, bring home the bacon, egg on your face, the icing on the cake, a bad egg, the apple of my eye (no clue where I heard that), a lot on my plate, greatest thing since sliced bread, bite off more than you can chew, bottom of the barrel, fly on the wall, cherry picking, someone’s goose is cooked, couch potato, cry over spilled milk, slice of humble pie, food for thought, starting from scratch, that hits the spot, in a nutshell (I use this one constantly), in a pickle, like two peas in a pod, don’t mince words, fruitcake, piece of cake, rubbing salt in the wound, spoiled rotten (also rotten to the core or just rotten), sell like hot cakes (use this a lot too), shimmer down, that’s small potatoes, spill the beans (I doubt there’s someone who hasn’t said this at least once), that takes the cake, whole enchilada, no such thing as a free lunch, too many cooks in the kitchen, tough cookie, wake up & smell the coffee, walking on eggshells and apparently acquired taste is one of these. Go figure.

As an Australian the only time I've ever heard the phrase "stone the crows" is in the comms for swearing when using an American tech line ship in world of warships.

aussie here, i have heard of the "fair suck of the [blank]" but usually i hear "sauce bottle" not "sav"

"he/she's got a few roos loose in the top paddock" - describing someone who is an idiot "jeez they're on the lip" - when someone wont shut up "hanging around like a bad smell" - to describe someone who wont leave "you've got buckleys" - when there is little to no chance of something happening "onya bike" - what to say to someone when you are angry and want them to leave "foot falcon" - when you're walking barefoot, you're travelling by foot falcon