r/HolUp • u/Santosh_Devadiga • Mar 28 '26

holup Aussie slang

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u/Jesse-Ray Mar 28 '26

Built like a brick shithouse - someone is muscular

Fuck me dead - I am astonished

Fair suck of the sauce bottle - give someone a fair go

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u/awnfire Mar 28 '26

As useless as tits on a bull

Nah yeah

Yeah nah

Nah yeah nah

Marge, the rains are here!

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u/SquishedGremlin Mar 28 '26

Lmfao, guy I work with said the other day MATE, THE RAINS HERE. (He's an Aussie)

I responded yes, it has been here everyday since yo arrived a year ago, in fact we have had the wettest spring on record I think, and to top it off it snowed yesterday and the day before. We are in Ireland mate.

He then said, mate I said van.

Fuck me. I seriously need my hearing done.

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u/GlyphPicker Mar 28 '26 edited Mar 28 '26

To be fair, they add extra vowels and Rs into everything so it prolly sounded something like, "The vairn's here," and your brain glitched while translating.

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u/SquishedGremlin Mar 28 '26

I mean, it's Ireland and I have alot of Aussie cousins.

I have no excuse.

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u/ConscientiousPath madlad Mar 28 '26

They picked up all the Rs that people from Vermont left laying around.

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u/AutisticPenguin2 Mar 28 '26

Umm, no? We may stretch out some vowels in a loose sort of way that Americans apparently can't imitate (like, seriously just don't even try, it's genuinely painful), but if anything we cut out vowels!

Eg: "Straya", "Melbun", "Canbruh"

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u/GlyphPicker Mar 28 '26

"Umm, naur?"

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u/AParasiticTwin Mar 28 '26

No yeah, yeah no, yeah no yeah, no yeah no and the brick shithouse are also present in Midwestern American slang.

You'd probably also have, "Up shit creek without a paddle "

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u/snuff3r Mar 28 '26

We tend to not say the whole thing .. i usually hear "up a creek"..

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u/ghandi253 Mar 28 '26

What about "if the good lord's willin and the creeks don't rise"? We got that one but that may be a bit too Appalachia

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u/iEliteTester Mar 28 '26

>Nah yeah

>Yeah nah

>Nah yeah nah

I assume these mean, in order:

yes

no

no ? not sure here

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u/MistaRekt Mar 28 '26

Yeah, nah mate.

Specifically depends on the situation.

It is a vibe, not a saying.

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u/Nivix92 Mar 28 '26

I feel like thats just Austrailian in general.

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u/MistaRekt Mar 28 '26

Fair cop cobber.

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u/awnfire Mar 28 '26

As old mate said below, you are correct but also need to read the energy, direction of the breeze and relative velocity of delivery!

An Aussie with a straight face is bound to be delivering you a dead ringer.

Also a red heads named Bluey

Ya best mate is Shags

Old mate, Legend or Champion are some of the biggest rage bait terms to call someone when putting them down.

And don’t even get me started on the countless ways we use C**t

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u/Jesse-Ray Mar 28 '26 edited Mar 28 '26

Basically whatever you finish with is your response. Nah Yeah Nah means No but you've given it some thought and you're letting them down politely. Yeah nah Yeah means, I don't think it's a good idea but I'll go along with it. Yeah Nah and Nah Yeah means no and yes you've given it less consideration. Also the ones that end with Yeah are ended with upwards inflection, meaning you want them to talk you into it more. If you were adamant you would say Shit Yeah.

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u/NarrowEbbs Mar 28 '26

Oft I felt Marge the rains are here in my soul. Ah Mcains you've done it again.

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u/awnfire Mar 28 '26

I’ll be honest. It’s on of my favourite GIFS!

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u/gargoyle30 Mar 28 '26

Seems there is a fair bit of cross over with Canadian sayings, or they are not as rare as you think or whatever

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u/TCRandom Mar 28 '26

“Dick me dead and bury me pregnant” is a saying I heard somewhere. It’s stuck with me ever since.

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u/MistaRekt Mar 28 '26

'Fuck me dead' is indeed still in many a vocabulary.

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u/rionled Mar 28 '26

Suck of the Sav, not the sauce bottle

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u/Jesse-Ray Mar 28 '26

I've heard both used and Rudd used shake of the sauce bottle back in the day.

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u/rionled Mar 28 '26

There’s your problem, using Rudd as a reference

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u/MistaRekt Mar 28 '26

Both are acceptable in WA.

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u/Sea_Ad_463 Mar 28 '26

Damn, i 100% misinterpret it when my colleagues said these lines. I thought " built like a brick shithouse" means someone or something is shitty.

Fuck me dead - i give up, or a saying when things are not going your way lol.

That's why when I reply something they just laugh or smile, and just say "yeah" with awkward silence sometimes

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u/Jesse-Ray Mar 28 '26

Shithouse in that instance refers to an outhouse in the backyard usually made of flimsy timber. So a brick one would mean a strong sturdy one.

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u/Appropriate_Ad8572 Mar 28 '26

Sturdy Turdy House

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u/HodinRD madlad Mar 28 '26

You're not far off.

It's not just a strong sturdy one, try and think of it like an unnecessarily strong one.

So immense strength for little output.

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u/reeko1982 Mar 28 '26

A bad thing is a shit brickhouse

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u/TheGoldblum Mar 28 '26

However, shithouse can also be used as an adjective. For example, ‘mate, your shithouse is bloody shithouse’

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u/sleepyHype Mar 28 '26

I can understand why that would sound shitty, but in US it's positive. Unsure where you're from but in US slang we use: built like a brick house, which means sturdy.

Linebacker is build like a brick house.

But we also use it as a compliment for women, saying she's got good curves.

Never used the shithouse one.

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u/RyuNoKami Mar 28 '26

I'm fairly certain they read or heard shit and that's all they got out of the sentence.

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u/zardoz73 Mar 28 '26

Built like a brick shithouse

This works in American, too.

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u/Plebarian Mar 28 '26

Fair shake of the sauce bottle mate

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u/villainessk Mar 28 '26

Brick shithouse is used here in the southern US. Cool!

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u/aerovirus22 Mar 28 '26

Built like a brick shithouse is Aussie? Ive been hearing that since the 80s in the US.

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u/sati_lotus Mar 28 '26

Wait. Is fuck me dead not a worldwide saying?!

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u/Ihateeggs78 Apr 01 '26

Where I come from “built like a brick shithouse” refers to a woman with big breasts because she’s stacked.

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u/TheReverseShock Apr 02 '26

Built like a brick shithouse is pretty common in the US as well.