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Unique/funny Phrases Not Often Heard Here

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I miss not hearing (and using) some of the unique terms and phrases from my pre-Thailand days, like:

"Holy Jumping Dinah!" (Wow!)

"Nothing Doing" (No Way)

"She's got a gigantic case of the ass today!" (She is in a nasty mood today!)

"Oh Dry up" (Stop whining)

"Stop your belly aching!" (Stop complaining!)

"That little mammy scratcher!" (That little rascal)

Got any to add? The funnier the better :o

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Last night, I said this to my Thai Working Girl Friend:

I tried to shake you by taking you to Hua Hin. She had never heard that before. I've been unsuccessful in shaking her a few times. I can't seem to shake her loose no matter what I try.

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My auntie used to say (affectionately): "He can soak his socks in my coffee anyday"

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Have a nice day !

I remember "Heavens to Murgatroyd" :o

and also "Have a good one" (have a good day or whatever)

"My throat is dryer than a dead dingos dick" When I need a beer.

Someone (so and so) is acting/is stupid. "so and so is short a few cockies in the top paddock"

"Sh1t happens, but why is it always happening to me!"

Are you pulling my pisser.

If wit was shit, you'd be constipated

Sweating like a pedophile in a kindergarden :o

When a friend 'sacked' his old girlfriend for a younger (but less agreeable) version, I explained to my wife that we say "he jumped out of the frying pan into the fire".

She understood immediately. The Thai version is "run away from the snake , run into the crocodile's mouth"

I miss not hearing (and using) some of the unique terms and phrases from my pre-Thailand days, like:

"Holy Jumping Dinah!" (Wow!)

"Nothing Doing" (No Way)

"She's got a gigantic case of the ass today!" (She is in a nasty mood today!)

"Oh Dry up" (Stop whining)

"Stop your belly aching!" (Stop complaining!)

"That little mammy scratcher!" (That little rascal)

Got any to add? The funnier the better :D

OMG Canadians appear more incomprehensable than Taswegians. :o (no offence intended to either race)

I honestly have never come accross any of these sayings except the bellyache one.

Have a nice day !

To which I usually respond (since it's an order) "Well, I'll try but I can't promise to."

I still occasionally use my father's term for a funnel - a tundish (tun being an old term for barrel or cask and you used a tundish to fill them)

I'll also occasionally drag up 'eckythump'

I miss not hearing (and using) some of the unique terms and phrases from my pre-Thailand days, like:

"Holy Jumping Dinah!" (Wow!)

"Nothing Doing" (No Way)

"She's got a gigantic case of the ass today!" (She is in a nasty mood today!)

"Oh Dry up" (Stop whining)

"Stop your belly aching!" (Stop complaining!)

"That little mammy scratcher!" (That little rascal)

Got any to add? The funnier the better :D

OMG Canadians appear more incomprehensable than Taswegians. :o (no offence intended to either race)

I honestly have never come accross any of these sayings except the bellyache one.

Ah, Canadian, that explains it :D

How about some of these to liven things up:

Face like a fookin welder's bench (in a Yorkshire accent), when referring to a particulalry ugly specimen, or perhaps 'face like a bulldog lickin piss of a thistle'?

Mine's a pint and you're a c*nt

Get back to the circus you c*nt

ummm...

Some people are just lucky

"if he fell into a barrel of shit he'd come out smelling of roses"

Whereas myself - "if I fell into a barrel of tits I'd come out sucking my thumb"

Face like a slapped arse (Bright red with anger/indignation)

Mad as a fish (picture a landed fish flapping around...)

"Neither a borrower nor a lender be"

"Proprium humani ingenii est odisse, quem laeseris"

The expression 'Six of one-half dozen of the other' which is the equivalent of 'Same-Same in Thailand.

For the morning after the night before :-

I've got a head like Birkenhead and a mouth like Lossiemouth.

I've got a mouth that feels like a gorillas armpit - or the bottom of a baby's pram.

My backside is as loose as a goose. I could crap down the sides of a bucket.

He is such a lowlife that he could crawl under a snakes belly - wearing a top hat.

She's got great legs. The exquisite fluting was by the great Italian master Varicosi. She stole them from a grand piano. With funbags like that she'll never fall flat on her face. You don't get many of those to a pound (or kilo).

I suggest that you consult a proctologist. You need a brain transplant.

It was reported today that paedophile Gary Glitter had died of a heart attack. A spokesman for St. Thomas's Hospital said that his condition was satisfactory.

"The turtle's head is touching cloth" - when one has left it a little close before visiting the cr@pper.

"It was like a flock of birds taking off" - when the result of that visit was particularly loose.

"Tight as a duck's ar5e and that's water tight" - of a cheap Charlie or the Aussie version "Tight as a crab's ar5e".

"Throws nickels around like manhole covers" (cheap Charlie)

"Like two kids fighting in a tent" (used to describe a bra-less well endowed gal)

"Like two kids fighting in a tent" (used to describe a bra-less well endowed gal)

Like a sackfull of bunny rabbits...

Once when my old fella had given a irish gypsy woman a lift and crossed her palm with silver she looked up and said "may your feet never be cold, for the want of a womans back to warm them on" delivered in a irish lilt.. which may be one of the best little blessings I have ever heard.

"Tight as a duck's ar5e and that's water tight" - of a cheap Charlie or the Aussie version "Tight as a crab's ar5e".

"Tight as a gnat's chuff" although I wouldn't wish to elaborate.

And to lower the tone (as if)

"Like waving a pencil at the channel tunnel."

"The turtle's head is touching cloth" - when one has left it a little close before visiting the cr@pper.

Which can lead to "the tigers face in ones underpants".

"The turtle's head is touching cloth" - when one has left it a little close before visiting the cr@pper.

Which can lead to "the tigers face in ones underpants".

AKA skidmarks

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I once heard Johnny Carson, playing Karnak the Magnificent, say (to Ed McMahon):

"May a weird holy man set fire to your nosehairs." Never forgot it. Karnak had many great one liners.

I still reckon that Oz has the best collection, here's just a few of my favourites.

may your chooks turn into emus and kick your shithouse door down

built like a brick shithouse

what do you think this is, bush week

she’ll be right mate

flat out like a lizard drinking

fair suck of the sav

don’t come the raw prawn

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