Like Italian for 'too much?' Or gone to the Tropics?
Close. Tropical fever = mad
I'm 3hrs from Australia but we understand most of it. The funny thing is how they shorten words with -o, while we shorten them with -ie.
So what we call the Sallies, they call the Salvos (Salvation Army). (They're still out of favour among older NZ queerfolk for their opposition to Homosexual Law Reform 20 years ago.
There is a dictionary of Australian, it's called
Let Stalk Strine by Affabeck Lawder.
Sadly, we're absorbing theirs and losing ours, a mild form of cultural imperialism, but nothing like as bad as we're getting from the US. Have a nice day!
Our answer to
Let Stalk Strine is called
New Zild.
And the video comes out here tomorrow, July 25, so you can expect an influx of Kiwis. Maybe I should start a thread for us.