Australia Phrases

Phrases

• A child is an island of curiosity surrounded by a sea of question marks (Shell advertising slogan)
• Amber nectar
• An everyday story of country folk (A catchphrase from The Archers)
• Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt book)
• Ankle biter
• Arse about face
• As cold as a well digger's arse
• As dry as a pommy's bath towel
• Ashes To Ashes (David Bowie song)
• Ashes to ashes dust to dust
• Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country
• Atilla of the American Continent (Nickname of General William Sherman)
• Australian defence
• Australians wouldn't give a XXXX for anything else (Castlemaine XXXX Lager advertising slogan)
• Ayers Rock (tourist attraction in Australia)
• Back of beyond
• Banged up
• Big Country (Nickname of basketball player Bryant Reeves)
• Blow through
• Bondi Beach (tourist attraction in Australia)
• Burnt to a ashes
• Come home to Birds Eye Country (Birds Eye Frozen Foods advertising slogan)
• Come to Marlboro Country (Marlboro Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Country Pie (Bob Dylan song)
• Country cousin
• Country gentleman
• Country house hotel (an upmarket hotel located in a revamped rural mansion)
• Country pursuits
• Country rock
• Country sports
• Cry the beloved country
• Dark continent
• Dee plane, dee plane (A catchphrase from Fantasy Island)
• Down Under (Nickname of Australia)
• Easter Island (tourist attraction in the Pacific Ocean)
• Fair dinkum
• Fire up the Quattro (A catchphrase from Gene Glenister In Ashes To Ashes)
• Fosters - Australian for Beer (Fosters advertising slogan)
• Girl From The North Country (Bob Dylan song)
• Go to the country
• God's chosen country

• God's own country (Kerala, India advertising slogan)
• Gold digger
• Gottaloveit (Seven Network Australia advertising slogan)
• He shot through like a Bondi tram
• In the Army, the edge (Australian Army advertising slogan)
• It's a free country
• Kangaroo court
• Little Rhody (Nickname of the US state of Rhode Island)
• Mother country
• Mr. Cricket (Nickname of Michael Hussey - Australian cricketer)
• My country right or wrong
• No man is an island
• Pleasure Island
• Pommy bashing (Australian slang term for physical or verbal attacks on the English)
• Rake over the ashes
• Rise from the ashes
• Rise like a Phoenix from the ashes
• Robben Island - South Africa
• Sackcloth and ashes
• Seriously ten (Network Ten Australia advertising slogan)
• She'll be right
• Shoot through (to leave or abscond)
• Sydney Harbour Bridge (tourist attraction in Sydney Australia)
• Sydney Opera House (tourist attraction in Australia)
• The Beehive Of Industry (Nickname of Providence Rhode Island)
• The Dirty Digger (Nickname of Rupert Murdoch)
• The Don (Nickname of Donald Bradman - Australian cricketer)
• The Great Barrier Reef (tourist attraction in Australia)
• The Staten Island Scot (Nickname of Bobby Thomson)
• The old country
• The one to watch (Channel 7 Australia advertising slogan)
• The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there (the opening line of The Go-Between)
• The wind of change is blowing through this continent
• This line of country
• Throw another shrimp on the barbie (Australian Tourist Commission advertising slogan)
• Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson book)
• Turn to ashes in your mouth
• Waltzing Matilda (Australia's unofficial national anthem)
• Which bank? (Commonwealth Bank of Australia advertising slogan)
• You are now free to move about the country (Southwest Airlines advertising slogan)
• You'll never put a better bit of butter on your knife (Country Life butter advertising slogan)
• Your country needs you

Related

• Ayers Rock (tourist attraction in Australia)
• Bondi Beach (tourist attraction in Australia)
• Down Under (Nickname of Australia)
• Gottaloveit (Seven Network Australia advertising slogan)
• Seriously ten (Network Ten Australia advertising slogan)
• Sydney Harbour Bridge (tourist attraction in Sydney Australia)
• Sydney Opera House (tourist attraction in Australia)
• The Great Barrier Reef (tourist attraction in Australia)
• The one to watch (Channel 7 Australia advertising slogan)
• Waltzing Matilda (Australia's unofficial national anthem)
• Which bank? (Commonwealth Bank of Australia advertising slogan)