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I use "not the sharpest knife in the drawer" quite a lot when refering to my trustees. Some other sayings meaning roughly the same:
Not the sharpest tool in the shed, nail in the bag, tack in the box.
His pull string's broken.
His elevator doesn't quite go all the way up.
He is on auto pilot.
Concentrationally challenged.
Mechanically declined.
Forgot to engage your brain again didn't you?
Not firing on all thrusters (from Star Trek).
Smart as a box of rocks, hammers, nails, bricks, etc.
Low wattage output.
Sharp as a marble. This is my favorite. I've told several inmates this who thought I was complimenting them.

Another word I picked up from the Army is "And?". Not so much the word, but the usage as a reply to someone making up excuses or lying to you. Just stare and reply "And?".
"Blah, blah, blah."
"And?"
"Blah, blah, blah, blah."
"And?"
"Blah-blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah!"
"And?"
Done properly, it will make grown men cry. A co-worker now uses it on her kids.

Crazy Red, you took my all time fav;

Git'er done!


Calli, as for "ants in your pants", over here we use that as a term for someone that is very anxious. Usually with children. Something like, "Would you sit still back there? What's the matter with you, you got ants in your pants or something?"

Also, around here, the term "I tell you what", usually goes at the beginning of a sentence. Like, "I'll tell ya what. . . When I heard blah blah blah, I thought I was gonna have to be fit and tied!" And by the way, lol, "I thought I was gonna have to be fit and tied" Refers to going crazy or out of your mind. Meaning to be fit and tied up in a straight jacket.

Hearing the one about the ankle biter, takes me back to many years ago when I was an OTR (Over The Road) truck driver. Ankle biters is what we used to call kids on the CB radio. Not talking kids, just the nickname for kids.

Some truck driver lingo on the CB radio (or "squalk box" as refered to by many);

18 wheeler-semi truck, tractor and trailor (they have a total of 18 wheels on the average)

6 wheeler-straight truck or box truck (they usually have 6 wheels, 2 steering and 4 rear)

All others are many times just refered to by the number of wheels they have for ID purposes.

Rolling parking lot-a car hauling truck, usually with new cars

A chicken Truck-the trucks all decked out, usually more so with lots of lights

Smokey Bear-Highway Patrol

Local Yolkol-city cop

County Mounty-Sherrif or Deputy

Bear in the grass-Highway Patrol hiding somewhere

Plain (insert color of car) wrapper, like plaine brown wrapper-unmarked cop of some kind

The commedian-the center divider on the highway.

Shooting north, south, east, west-the direction the cop is aiming their radar guns

Bubblegum machine-any cop, old term refering to the single rotating light on top of the older type police cars

Disco lights-cops with their lights all turned on and flashing

Taking pictures-a cop is shooting radar

Bird Dog-a radar detector

Feeding the Bears-getting a ticket, or paying a ticket

Beaver or seat cover-females

Hammer down! or Drop(ing) the hammer-fast driving, meaning more to put the pedal on the floor!

A load of pot holes-empty load, as in a pot hole is an empty space.

Back over your donkey-behind you

Back'er down!-stop quickly!

Big Truck-semi truck

Little truck-pickup truck

Pig Pen-most all animal hauling trucks

Flat bed-Flat bed trailer all open.

Tanker-tanker truck that hauls liquid.

A hook-a wrecker or tow type vehicle.

Meat Wagon-ambulance

A flip, or flipping-refers to cops turning around to go the other way

Bear in the air/sky-police plane or helicoptor

Bear Convention-the local donut shop

Breaker-asking for an open channel so that you can be heard. Rarely used anymore though.

Big radio-a radio that has been after marketed over powered

Afterburner-a linear power amp for the CB. Will make it into a Bit Radio.

Bed spring antenna-antenna that has a large or huge coil wrapped around the base, mostly used for the Big Radios

Toys-refers to "toys" placed on the radio. Mostly sounds and such that activate with a switch.

10-4, roger, copy, 42, and others-I heard you well, OK, thanks, etc.

Fender Bender-an accident

Gator tracks-flat tire chunks (usually from a retred) and pieces laying all over the road.

A Big Gator on the road-a full or mostly full single piece of re-tred that has come off of a tire. Retreds are old tires with a new piece of rubber wrapped around them. The new piece being a "retred".

Hammer lane-the inside lane closest to the middle, which is supposed to be for faster vehicles.

The slow lane-the furthest lane to the outside.

Chicken house/coupe-weigh station

Big word is out-meaning chicken house is closed (closed being the bigger word than open) and being "out" as in meaning like to hang a shingle with a sign on it.

Little word is out-you guessed it, meaning open (as in open is the littler word than closed)

Momma-usually refering to a wife or girl friend. As in, "After I deliver this load, I'm headin home to momma for a few days."

Pappa-meaning the same as above but for lady truck drivers

Fast mover-any fast vehicle

han-refers to handle or your nickname. Used when unknown what your nickname is. As in maybe a quick thank you for a cop report from someone heading the other direction, "Apreciate that han"

Keep the sunny side up-refers to keeping your vehicle in the upwards and correct way, be careful, and don't wreck.

Blew/blowing my doors off-a loud/powerful radio, like starting your car and forgetting you left the radio turned all the way up. Also refers to very fast vehicles that went by your very quickly.

Talk back-refers to a CB feature that allows you to hear your own voice over the CB's speaker

"Audio"-when you hear it repeated, or just as a single word, it is someone testing/setting the controls of their CB to the way they prefer it. Using the talk back feature, they can hear what they will sound like to others. Is used to mean not to respond back to the talker when you hear it.

Got your ears on?-asking if someone you are wanting to talk has their radio on.

Soft side-refering to trailers that have the pull up and down sides. Fairly new to the truck driving industry.

Refer-a refridgerated trailer

Tractor-the main part of the semi truck. The actual truck and not the trailor

Bob Tail-to be just the tractor without a trailer.

In the wind-to get going

Lot lizard-prostitute

Choke and puke-an old restaurant

Turn out-meaning to unload and re-load at the same place

Pickle park-a rest stop on the highway. (explaination not rated G)

Cab over-tractor that has no front nose sticking out, is flat down the entire front of the truck, and engine is under the driver and between the driver and the passanger

Conventional-tractor that has a big front end. Opposite of the cab over above

A stinger-a way to make your truck go faster and have more power. Is done in the fuel pump line

Toy shop/store-CB repair/sales store

Back door-behind you

Front door-ahead of you

Rolling your door-meaning traveling the same direction as you, but ahead of you. As in, "You got a cop rolling your door about 2 miles ahead of you."

Barefoot-an unmodified radio

Big Mack-A Mack truck (brand)

K Whopper-Kenworth truck (brand)

Peter Car-Peterbuilt truck (brand)

Freight Shaker-Freightliner truck (brand)

Eagle-International truck (brand)

Rig-talking about either the truck, or the CB radio

Come back?-meaning to repeat yourself, I could not hear you for some reason the first time.

Wall to wall-meaning everywhere. The bears are "wall to wall" up ahead of you. Meaning too many to count and all over the place.

10-36 is asking for the time.

Super Slab-Federal highways, not state highways.

Walked on/all over you, or stepped on/all over you-means someone talked over you with a stronger/closer radio and I did not hear you. Usually gets a repeated resonse back.

Got an eyeball?-Do you see it/him/her/etc.

A dragonfly rig-A truck that goes slow up the hills and fast down the other side; Drags up, and flys down, a dragonfly truck.

Rolling refinery-a tanker truck hauling gas or fuel

A parking lot-a traffic jam, especially those causing the traffic to come to a standstill.

Clean and green-meaning there is not cops in front of you the direction you are going

Highball or Highballing-to drive all the way to your destination non-stop and as fast as possible. As in, "I'm highballing it down to Dallas!"

Green Stamps-money, as in "better get your green stamps ready for that toll road ahead"

Horizontal Engineering-to sleep, or to go lie down

And yet there are many more I can't remember right now.


The following are nicknames for major cities in the US;
The Big Dirty-Clevenland, OH
The Dirty Side-New York City, NY
The Big Rubber-Akron, OH
The Blue Chip, or the Queen City-Cincinnati, OH
Bean Town-Boston, Mass
Circle City-Indianapolis, IN
K town-Knoxville, TN
Beer City-Milwaukee, WI
Watergate-Washington DC
Superdome City-New Orleans LA
Motor City-Detroit, MI
Hot Town-Atlanta, GA
Guitar town-Nashville, TN

Some state nick names;
Bikini State-Florida
Country State-Tennesse
Buckeye state-Ohio
Hillbilly state-Kentucky

As well, there are many more I can't remember here right now either, lol


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There is always a bigger fish...

Do y'all have the "Outback Steakhouse" chain in Australia? Just wondering

Is this them http://www.outbacksteakhouse.com.au/menu/body_menuglutenfree.htm another link http://www.outbacksteakhouse.com.au/home.htm

Cheers
TW

Did ya all hear me describing myself to babel one day?

Yep, I think I did.

Interesting thread this. I've decided that we have a lot of sayings that are common to us all or so similar to ones we use, they are really are the same or at least mean they need no translation, cause we can figure it out

eg ACIDRAIN's "Come back" = our "come again"

Can't remember how Calli used "ants in your pants", but my meaning of it is the same as ACIDRAIN's. There were many others, where the US slang was so familiar (blame or thank TV & movies)

And yet there are others that are completely new to me.

EDIT: Just used another 2 today, I'd forgotten:-

Cool Bananas (just an extension of saying cool)

Drat - the 2nd one has just flown right out of my head (I guess the lights are on but no-one's home). It will dawn on me later & I'll update then.

EDIT 2: Remember now.

Behind the 8 ball. Means that you really at a disadvantage in the situation.

Cheers
TW

I think there was some confusion... Calla used the term "ant's pants," meaning something really great. I compared to the term "bee's knees," which is a similar term my mom uses at times. "It's the ant's pants!" or "It's the bee's knees!"

On the other hand, having "ants in one's pants" generally refers to someone who can't sit still/squirms. "Do you have ants in your pants? Sit still!"

Trying to think of Chicago terms... The living room is sometimes referred to as the "frontroom" (often ounced "frunchroom" ). It's not a term I've ever used, but I've heard it a few times.

As for Chicago itself... "Chitown" and "the Chi" ("Chi" ounced as "shy" ). "Chicagoland" refers to Chicago and the surrounding metropolitan area, which actually can be considered to extend into Indiana. Thus, I live in "Chicagoland" 'cause y'all ain't gonna recognize where the heck I live if I told you "Des Plaines."

ACIDRAIN... do you know what Illinois/Chicago are called? My grandfather used to drive... I have a list around here somewhere of his CB terms, but I think you've pretty much covered everything I had.

~Meow. Thus spoke the cat.~

For Chicago, I have heard it called Chi town (ounced shy). But we always called it "The Windy" on the CB.

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There is always a bigger fish...

"ant's pants," meaning something really great. I compared to the term "bee's knees"

Yep, I've heard both of those sayings used here describing something that is really great.

And "ants in your pants" is as you and ACIDRAIN say and refers to someone who is fidgety, can't keep still.



Cheers
TW

Acid, your post reminds me very much of some of my friends' favorite movie, Smokey and the Bandit. I've watched it at least twice with them this semester!

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Smokey and the bandit, I love all of them. And have them all on DVD, lol. Got a lot of those old trucker movies on DVD. I grew up watching those trucker shows, like "BJ and the Bear", and "Movin' On". And my favorite Christmas movie is "Christmas comes to Willow Creek", a true trucker tale.

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There is always a bigger fish...

no outback steakhouse thank goodness.

denver Wrote:
no outback steakhouse thank goodness.

Seems we do. I'd never even heard of Outback Steakhouse before now, but a google search found 2 here 2 here in Sydney. One of them in Strathfield - not that far from me really. I guess from your comment Denver, that I shouldn't bother rushing over & trying it out.
http://www.outbacksteakhouse.com.au/locator/index.html.

Cheers
TW

Outback isn't that bad...no worse than Olive Garden etc. They do have really yummy Cream of Onion soup though!


I loved "Back over your donkey-behind you" Acidrain!!

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I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
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Looks like the Aussie version of the Outback Steakhouse chain over here. Weird, I figure any steak house in Oz would be an 'outback' steakhouse. LOL


ACID-Didn't mean to steal "Git-er-done" I'm a "Blue Collar Comedy Tour addict. LOL Your truckin lingo post took me straight down memory lane. My dad was in a CB club in the '70's and I remember going on road trips and listening to all the truckers talk. LOL We always talked to them and helped them spot smokeys. We all even had CB handles...my dad was "Rabbi", my mom was "Yellow Rose", and I was "Pollywog". Guess that's a nod to the fact that I was like 4 or 5 years old at the time. Ahhh, memories!!!

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~~Melissa~~
"Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder."

Weird, I figure any steak house in Oz would be an 'outback' steakhouse. LOL

Maybe true to say that about "downunder" but not "outback" When something is "outback" it's way out bush, in the sticks, out the back of Burke, out Timbucktoo - sorry more sayings for somewhere out whoop whoop (you get the picture).

So a steakhouse in a city (eg Sydney) wouldn't be in the "outback" - just a gymmicky name IMO.

Cheers
TW

Robyn :

Overpriced for what you get. Pretty much a steakhouse with Australian decor and australian sounding dishes. Nothing on the menu you'd find in an actual australian steakhouse.

Hey Denver - that's pretty much what I'd figured. With a gymmicky name comes gymmicky good I guess.

Cheers
TW

There's one just up the road from me. Some friends have been telling us we should go because the food is nice but mainly because of the imported beer. Since I'm not a beer drinker, I'm not that excited about the whole thing. It always looks like its got plenty of customers of an evening.

For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks. - Terry Pratchett

When I was in the US my friends took me to one of the Outback Steakhouse theme restaruants.

a. I am Australian. I would prefer NOT to experience a piece of home whilst travelling. That is why I travel. To experience other things.

b. The restaruant is not authentic. Just gimmicky. No harm in a bit of fun though.

c. I do not eat meat.

So it was quite a funny thing to do really.
But they were keen to go. And I am happy to go to friends fave local places.

Friends in Hong Kong took me out the night I landed. Not for Cantonese cuisine but their favourite Mexican restaurant.

Man, it's catching.

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wish-ga That's really funny.

Callatya

Since I'm not a beer drinker, I'm not that excited about the whole thing

Me too - not a beer drinker either, that is. Pretty funny for a nation that's meant to full on beer drinkers.

Cheers
TW

i wasn't one either...

my poor husband would have a difficult time - he's gluten intolerant. Which beer has