Picking through the trash in the garbage bin of life.
I'm not quite sure where to leave this comment (raving)I read your response on Mr. Watts blog.your comment,"The Mrs. was crook"I am familiar with a lot of AZ and NZ sayings but that one is a bit of a mystery to this American. Care to share the meaning? :-)
The wife was sick.Missus = wifeCrook, as in "crook as a dead dog"
I like the Sydney saying 'Crook as Rookwood', Rookwood is the largest necropolis (cemetery) in the southern hemisphere, and it's in Sydney. Sick enough to be in the cemetery is the loos translation.
loosearrgh!
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I'm not quite sure where to leave this comment (raving)
I read your response on Mr. Watts blog.
your comment,
"The Mrs. was crook"
I am familiar with a lot of AZ and NZ sayings but that one is a bit of a mystery to this American. Care to share the meaning? :-)
The wife was sick.
Missus = wife
Crook, as in "crook as a dead dog"
I like the Sydney saying 'Crook as Rookwood', Rookwood is the largest necropolis (cemetery) in the southern hemisphere, and it's in Sydney. Sick enough to be in the cemetery is the loos translation.
loose
arrgh!
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