"CHEWING THE FAT"
| Classic New Zealand phrases from Dunedin | ||||||
| Dunedin phrase | Milne's guess | the real answer | Dunedin phrase | Milne's guess | the real answer | |
| Morning tea | tea and biscuits | ? | You can water a stone but it won't grow | ? | ? | |
| Oopsy-daisy | ? | ? | Pull your socks up | ? | ? | |
| Hells Bells | ? | ? | Cor blimey | ? | ? | |
| Bitten off more than you can chew | ? | ? | Don't get your knickers in a twist | calm down / don't get annoyed | ? | |
| Tough bikkies | tough luck | ? | keep your shirt on | ? | ? | |
| Come a cropper | ? | ? | Holy Moly | ? | ? | |
| Come again | ? | ? | Fudge | a sweet | ? | |
| Shame | ? | ? | Bogus | cool / mental / a fungus! | ? | |
| Pull a sickie | prank | ? | You're a hard case | ? | ? | |
| Wag | joke | ? | She'll be right | she's right / she's right - sarcastically | ? | |
| Smoke-o break | ? | ? | A bit of a dag | lets people down / boring | ? | |
| Geez | ? | ? | Get a life | lighten up | ? | |
| Lollies | ? | ? | Pikelet | a baby pike / fish | ? | |
| Backpack | a bag / beat it! | ? | Omigod | surprised / shocked / Wow! | ? | |
| Paint the town red | ? | ? | I'll shout you one | ? | ? | |
| Hook, line and sinker | ? | ? | Crib | ? | ? | |
| The wop-wops | feeling sick / disease / bed bugs! | ? | ||||
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Jenny, Tracy, Sarah and Jo-Anne, Monique, Lisa, Anna, Amber and Helen, Emma, Erin D, Olivia, Amanda, Kelly, Nedra and Erin
"The girls from 3 Watson", Queen's High School Dunedin.
