Words for Wednesday -- The Words and Musings

This meme was started by Delores a long time ago.  Troubles led her to bow out, but the meme was too much fun to let go, and now Words for Wednesday is provided by a number of people and has become a movable feast with Elephant's Child as our coordinator.

  Essentially the aim of this meme is to encourage us to write.  Each week we are given some prompts. These prompts can be words, phrases, music or images.
  What we do with those prompts is up to us: a short story, prose, a song, a poem, or treating them with ignore ...
  We can use some or all of the prompts, and mixing and matching is encouraged.

  Some of us put our creation in comments on the post, and others post on their own blog. This fun meme includes cheering on the other participants.
  And the more the merrier goes here as well, so if you are posting on your own blog then please tell us in the comments, so that all other participants, can come along and applaud.

For this Wednesday Elephant's Child has given us some typically Australian phrases/slang. The first thing that hit me was how similar some of them are to the corresponding Danish phrases.

Pull the wool over his eyes - Putte blår i øjnene på nogen - Put flax tow in somebody's eyes
Put a sock in it -
Dog's breakfast -
Gone walkabout - Er smuttet - Has left (for a walk).
Six of one, half a dozen of the other -
Tell him he's dreaming - du drømmer! - You're dreaming!

I do not think I'll be able to continue Susan and Heidi's adventures into Aunt Jemima's old garden with these expressions - they just do not fit. But maybe I could make an extra chapter to the mysterious Australia-map-transformation-mess ... it's still in need of an ending. Let's see what happens next.