The MAFSAU lexicon of idioms, sayings and colloquialisms

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This is a thread just for gathering together a selection of the most commonly heard words and phrases - a cliché checklist.

Lets start with:

Showing up
Thrown under the bus
Alpha male
Checked out
Disconnect

A repost of the bingo card....

confronting

Blindsided

Walls up

Trad wife

Not there yet

Re the latter, I keep waiting for one of them to ask the other 'Are we there yet?'

Got your/her/his back

Intimacy/being intimate

Bogan
Boganic

Oh how did I forget that/ not put it at the top of the list 😀

Leading to ...

Mean girls

and Posh

Who knew posh was an insult so bad as MAFSAU 2025 cast think it is ?🤣

open and honest

happy wife - happy life

“Confronting” drives me mad!
Also “homestays” 🤮🤮🤮🤮

We briefly had "Threw the toys out of the pram" the other day. I'm a bit sad that we have not heard "Spat the dummy" yet. Aussies have the best expressions for getting cross ever. ""Like evah"

I really feel nostalgia for the time I spent living in Oz

Sweeping things under the rug ( not carpet)

Doubled down!!!

From the get-go

Put in the work