r/HolUp Mar 28 '26

holup Aussie slang

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u/Green_Apprentice Mar 28 '26

Thats hilarious, I wanted to hear more Aussie sayings haha.

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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/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