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YO! Limey–that’s Mrs O’Leary’s cow, and she “caused” the Chicago Fire. Please make a note of it! 
Well at least I knew it was a cow 
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And I meant to type "went to the Big [insertwhatIinsertedbefore] in the sky. :smack:
Carking it.
[QUOTE=Ice Wolf]
That’s part of NewZild as well. Goes for anything, man or metal, that’s bitten the dust.
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When did we ever NOT borrow anything we liked the look of across the ditch?
Shopping the mahogany mini-mall
[Nit-pick]This is an excellent thread, and great to read, but many of the expressions here technically aren’t “slang.” They’re really euphemisms. Pass on, for example, is simply a phrasal verb–not slang.[/Nit-pick]
That said, I wonder if we could come up with an equal number of expressions for for being born (I guess you don’t need a euphemism for that).
Pining for the fjords
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Carking it.
When did we ever NOT borrow anything we liked the look of across the ditch?
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Nah, I meant that the slang term is common to both countries. We do borrow from Aussie as well as vice versa, y’know!
We probably could boil up a fair number of examples. Saying “being born” gets boring after a while, and there’s something poetic enough about “coming into the world” that the variants are there.
Around here (maybe in our cousin country as well) we say “being sprogged” now and then.
chowder,
I know Man City are Man City, but isn’t it a little early to be picking up new terms to describe their season. 
d&r
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[Nit-pick]This is an excellent thread, and great to read, but many of the expressions here technically aren’t “slang.” They’re really euphemisms. Pass on, for example, is simply a phrasal verb–not slang.[/Nit-pick]
That said, I wonder if we could come up with an equal number of expressions for for being born (I guess you don’t need a euphemism for that).
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Being born: Thrust into a cold, grey uncaring world without the courtesy of being asked if you really wanted to go there
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chowder,
I know Man City are Man City, but isn’t it a little early to be picking up new terms to describe their season.
d&r
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hah, you may scoff and hurl jibes now matey, let’s hear you squeal when the season gets under way and City are thrashing all opposition
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I just had a thought.
Maybe the bucket one refers to Mrs Whatevers cow, yannow the one that caused Bostons fire.
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Her name was Mrs. O’Leary. Secondly, it was in Chicago, not Boston.
Also, how could a cow kicking over a bucket start such a huge fire? In fact, it was really supposed to be a lantern, not a bucket. Mrs. O’Leary survived (I don’t know about her cow).
He wouldn’t ‘voom’ if you put 20,000 volts through him.
[QUOTE=guizot]
Her name was Mrs. O’Leary. Secondly, it was in Chicago, not Boston.
Also, how could a cow kicking over a bucket start such a huge fire? In fact, it was really supposed to be a lantern, not a bucket. Mrs. O’Leary survived (I don’t know about her cow).
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Cough, cough…see post #36
Went away
Went east (or west)
Closed out his personnel records
violated his warrantee
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We do borrow from Aussie as well as vice versa, y’know!
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No, no… we borrow from them, they steal from us.
I’ve heard quite a few nurses say, “He/She has gone to heaven.” It always made me wonder where the inside information came from.
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Cough, cough…see post #36
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I’m fairly certain Mrs. O’Leary was the victim of slander by a malicious neighbor, but I can not find a cite …
Has anyone mentioned “turned up [his] toes”?
Bugled to Jesus.
Step on a rainbow.
(from Kinky Friedman)
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I’m fairly certain Mrs. O’Leary was the victim of slander by a malicious neighbor, but I can not find a cite …
Has anyone mentioned “turned up [his] toes”?
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Here is what Wiki has to say about it:
And I also found this which goes into a little more detail on Daniel “Pegleg” Sullivan.
Thank you.
[QUOTE=chowder]
hah, you may scoff and hurl jibes now matey, let’s hear you squeal when the season gets under way and City are thrashing all opposition
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There’s a “Best Joke on the SDMB” thread going on in ATMB at the moment - I’ll nominate this if you like :).
I always perpetuate the story that “peg out” refers to the end of a game of croquet, but I think the game of cribbage is probably older.