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Australian Slang

出版	Penguin Books, 2008
主題	Humor / GeneralLanguage Arts & Disciplines / GeneralLanguage Arts & Disciplines / Grammar & PunctuationLanguage Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / GeneralPhilosophy / Language
ISBN	01430091179780143009115
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=LYOoLwAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋This dictionary brings together a colourful collection of colloquialisms from Down Under, including humorous rhyming slang, inventive insults and comical curses. Celebrating a distinctive and often irreverent language, Australian Slang is a ripper of a read that will delight visitors from overseas, as well as true-blue Aussie blokes and sheilas.

Read this book to discover the meaning behind perplexing Australian discourses such as this one-

G'day mate! How've ya been, you old bastard? Take a butchers at that galah playing aerial ping-pong on the telly. He's about as useful as a one-legged man in an arse-kicking competition. The drongo'll get the spear if he doesn't pull his socks up.