Dave's Book of Aussie Slang

David Andrew is an inveterate traveller and responsibility avoider who has spent decades exploring Oz and further afield. Having come to ground somewhere on Australia's east coast – with a long spell of rain predicted, and finding a ballpoint and pad handy – it was time to get it all down. The result was the Dave's book series; he is also the author of Dave's Book of Aussie Drinking Games.

Introduction • Orientation: Learn the basics on geography, currency and salutations to get around like a local. • Food & Drink: Here's everything you need to maintain bodyweight, quench your thirst and form close personal bonds with your hosts. • Social Skills & Dating: Pick up social cues, start and stop conversations, and decipher the indecipherable. • Industrial Relations: Here's all the Aussie lingo for when you're on the job. • Cultural Insights: Here's a hand to help you get your head around the choice phrases and hieroglyphic abbreviations. • Sport & Leisure: Dive into the Ozzie obsession with sport and learn the handy phrases, idioms and turns of speech that you'll encounter when you cross the white line. • Must-haves: All the need-to-knows and can't-do-withouts for conversing in Oz, including name-calling and rhyming slang, turns of phrase and face-slapping syllables. • Impolite Talk: Generous and good-hearted Australian insults and putdowns that can be heard everywhere from the kitchen table to the Australian parliament.