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These user-created lists contain the word ‘arse over tit’.
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buttocks
words for buttocks and anything
to do with buttockshiney, heiney, nates, hindquarters, bum, backside, behind, bottom, breech, bunny, butt, can and 160 more...
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Situation Normal
inspired by Mistakes Were Made. Words for things going wrong in a manner particularly violent, stupid, soul-crushing, boggling, grandiose, or any combination of these qualities.
fuckup, snafu, fiasco, abortion, miscarriage, implosion, contretemps, imbroglio, brouhaha, melee, kerfuffle, mayhem and 156 more...
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pax australiana
first in, best dr..., chalk and cheese, chuck a sickie, banana bender, sandgroper, croweater, budgie smuggler, bludge, bathers, swimmers, bogan, buck's night and 73 more...
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Tunie: And the Band Played Waltzing M...
I used to sing this as a lullaby to my spawn—till said spawn grew big enough to understand the words, and asked me to sing something else.
Written by Eric Bogle, c. 1971.
...billabong, ghosts, no one, fewer, the call, question, what are they mar..., forgotten war, forgotten, sore, stiff, bent and 66 more...
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dialect and oikolect
from Birmingham, the Black Country, and a few generations back on one side, Lancashire. Also
- deliberate mis-sayings and
- things which aren't localised, but relatively infrequent in...scraige, lummock, round the wrekin, mithering, daft ha'p'orth, caggy-handed, fizzog, mardy, kaylied, hotch up, cadge, yampy and 33 more...
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Words and phrases I picked up from my...
Mum loves a good cliche. I am finding that I mimic her with increasing regularity as I find audiences that don't know her or her own brand of broad Aussieness.
bob's your uncle, if your auntie ha..., dry as a limeburn..., like an owl peeri..., haven't they figu..., dry as a dead din..., cold as a witch's..., you catch more fl..., you can't make fi..., late for breakfast, jack robinson, fish and visitors and 49 more...
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ry isn't arse over elbow common in the UK these days as well? I think arse over tit can also be used to mean "badly confused" or screwed up in some way. Dec 27, 2012
dontcry We also say "ass over tea kettle." Dec 30, 2008
reesetee My mother says "ass over tin cup." Dec 30, 2008
chained_bear Yes, this is an Australianism I heard quite a bit, from respectable people who did not swear (much).(Saying an Australian doesn't swear at all is... well, it does not compute.) Some (few) people said "arse over head" though. Dec 29, 2008
questionsremain My mother-in-law used to say "ass over teakettle". Presumably yours means the same as hers: a spectacular fall. Dec 29, 2008
chained_bear I heard this a lot when I lived in Australia. I still love it. Hee... Sep 12, 2008