"Wigwam for a goose's bridle" was my grandfather's favorite response to all our questions. (and we had many)
My father's response when asked where he was going was "I'm going to see a man about a dog."
At least, we still have bogans!
Commenting on someone on TV, I said "Streuth, she's fully three axe handles across the hips".
My... ahem, rather "large" Aunt, who was visiting at the time, gave me a stare that singed all the hair off that side of my head.
I've never said it since.
I think most of the 'dad' sayings are going out of date, unless there is some gene that kicks in as soon as our generation starts to have kids...
"Freeze the balls off a brass monkey"
"Couldnt organise a root in a brothel"
"barney"
"dunny"
"drain the snake"
etc etc
Not exactly a saying, but blokes used to wear 'brothel creepers' (a type of shoe).
Or even worse passing a cemetery dads go crazy!
"That's the dead centre of town"
"People are dying to get in there"
That saying appears to be coming, very much, back into fashion, and as such, is not ideally suited to this thread."We don't ask for their love only for their fear", Heinrich Himmler
I could think of 100 old Australian colloquialisms that are no longer used, which is a shame. I blame social media and political correctness.
As such, probably most of them I could not even repeat here.
But a couple.
As dry as a dead dingo's donger
As tight as a fish's @rse
As clumsy as a duck in a ploughed paddock
In like Flynn
Off like a Bondi tram
As miserable as a shah on a rock.
There were hundreds of them, now practically extinct
one from our Canadian cousins, when no answer is needed:
"Does Dolly Parton sleep on her back?"
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