Do you guys sometimes use Australian slang?

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1. No.

   It’s Australian.

   EDIT – Some of those appear to be archaic American slang the Australians appropriated.

2. I’ve heard people say cool beans and sad sack before. I’m not even sure in know what the other things mean.

3. Cool beans gets used fairly often.

   I’ve heard g’day, gone walk about, but usually in people talking about Australia or doing an Aussie accent.

   Then if coppers are cops that gets used to, the other ones I’ve never heard.

4. “sad sack” is a super old phrase that’s not Australian but guessing you use in a unique way? What does it mean?

   Cool beans isn’t Australian. It’s from the US – originated like 1960s or 1970s.

   None of the others are used here that I know of but I recognize a few.

5. instead of budgie smuggler we say banana hammock

6. >cool beans

   My dad used to say that in the 90s to try and seem cool. It didn’t work.

   >Sad sack

   Sometimes, but it’s longer. “What a sad sack of shit”

   >coppers

   We shorten that cops decades ago

7. No. I know what all of these mean but never say them myself.

8. Unironically no.

9. Apparently you might be using American slang and not realize it. I’ve heard some using G’day ironically

10. I’m gonna need to see some concrete historic proof on how “cool beans” is uniquely an Australian phrase. I’m not quite convinced, as I’ve been saying it since I was in grade school.

    The only other one I’m questioning is “sad sack”, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen it without “of shit” at the end, so it could be a different phrase. Need context.

    The rest of them? I don’t think they have ever been uttered through my lips.

11. Only when doing a very bad impersonation of an Australian.

12. Nope

13. Cool beans and sad sack aren’t Australian.

    Others no one says, except for g’day when doing a terrible Australian impersonation.

14. My sister and her friends used cool beans in the late 2000s. Haven’t heard it since I graduated high school. None of the others.

15. Only Dinkum tucker.

16. Sad sack goes way back to WW2 American slang for hapless army infantry grunt. There used to be an American syndicated comic strip decades ago, (70’s?), by that name.

17. Not really.

    I mean Crocodile Dundee was popular in the late ’80s to early ’90s and people might have exaggerated a Paul Hogan accent but, in general, we don’t use Australian slang.

18. I didn’t know sad sack and cool beans were Aussie slang. I was under the impression they were old American slang.

    I use both occasionally.

19. No. And “cool beans” was used and forgotten about in less than a years time here back in the early 90’s. Sounds like you’re using one of our cast offs.

20. Thanks to Bluey our pre schooler refers to the toilet as the dunny.

21. We used the word “whinge” quite a bit when our kids were little, as in “No whingeing!” When they started to get whiny.

22. Isn’t shit hot Irish 90s slang?

23. Cool beans, all the time. Occasionally hear someone say g’day. Never even heard of most of the others.

24. Nope

25. I don’t use any on those that are actually Australian. Sad sack is from the US army, and cool beans was used the first time in media in Cheech and Chong’s up in smoke.

26. Well, I start talking… Bob’s your uncle, and I say “no worries” or something.