American Reacts to 26 Weird Australian Sayings

Added: 2026-05-19

[00:00:00]What's up guys? Welcome back to the channel. Here we are with another reaction and in this one we have 26 weird things Australians say.

[00:00:11]However, before we dive into these weird things, if you guys happen to enjoy, please don't forget to smash subscribe, give the video a thumbs up. Let's find out what y'all be saying my my fellow Aussies. Good morning from Australia.

[00:00:25]Weather update is it is very rainy today.

[00:00:29]>> Okay. Okay. So I will not be getting out of this hoodie until I need to go to work in like half an hour 45 minutes.

[00:00:36]But I thought today it would be fun to sit down and share with you all some weird things as a Canadian that I've heard Australians say since coming here on a working holiday visa. Let me hear it cuz I've I've heard everything. I've heard everything so I'm very intrigued if I can hear something new in this video that Aussie say.

[00:00:56]But okay, let's just get right into it cuz I have been keeping a list since getting here. But the first thing I noticed that was kind of weird that Australians said to me was how are you going? Like in Canada we ask how are you doing? But How you going?

[00:01:09]How you going?

[00:01:10]You got you got how you going?

[00:01:12]You get you got to say it really fast like how you going?

[00:01:17]But how are you going? Yeah, yeah, I heard that.

[00:01:19]>> to see like how you are they ask how are you going instead of how you doing. The next thing Australians say is too easy as in like Oh, how about that? or like awesome.

[00:01:30]Thank you.

[00:01:31]>> [laughter] >> Like when you do something for them when you tell them something and they're like accepting what you're saying they say too easy. Another one they say that's kind of along those lines is legend. Or they say you're a legend. Bloody legend.

[00:01:42]>> that they like they just say legend.

[00:01:45]Of course You're a bloody legend. I have heard legend not in the sense that she uses do you say something like legend or but I have heard legend.

[00:01:54]>> The classic cheers. They say cheers a lot. It's like a word of approval or sometimes they say thank you. They'll say cheers. Something that I actually really like Australians saying is darl, darl. It kind of sounds like doll when they're saying it, but it's like short for darling. Like thanks, doll.

[00:02:11]Just it's cute. I'm learning a lot of new things today. Australia, I've reacted to a lot of videos, a lot of slang videos, lot There's a lot of this stuff that that I didn't know before. I'm I'm I'm happy that I'm learning new things, but at the same time I'm kind of shocked. Like I thought I was like an honorary Aussie, but I still got a ways to go. And so instead of darling, darl.

[00:02:33]And I've never heard anyone in Canada say that before. Obviously, in true Australian fashion, I've never heard that word be used so much. Actually don't know if I've ever really heard anyone use that word. In Canada, we mostly just drop like F bombs every second word. Um so yeah, I'd never really heard before, but they say it all the time. They say it to their friends.

[00:02:53]Um it can be like an endearing thing or it can just mean like a person. Like I don't know. They use it all the time.

[00:03:00]Another one that I know isn't like purely just Australian. It's also from like Europe and stuff. They just say rubbish. We don't say rubbish. We say like garbage or trash. And they say rubbish. So I think that's kind of funny. Another weird one that they say when you say thank you. Instead of saying like it's all good. I feel like that's when in Canada we say like oh no problem. Like it's all good. They'll say it's all right. Oh. And that one kind of threw me off at the beginning cuz in Canada I feel like we don't really say like it's all right as like a no problem thing. It's like it's all right.

[00:03:33]Yeah, that's that's exactly. Yeah, I say like no problem. No worries. Thank you for holding that door. No worries. I appreciate you. No problem.

[00:03:41]Hey, I appreciate you. It's all right.

[00:03:43]Yeah, that's something you'd have to you have to adjust to cuz that's we don't use it in the same context. I feel like when US and Canada are very similar. I mean, they're right on top of us. So, very similar Uh in a lot of things. So, yeah.

[00:03:57]We don't use it in that context.

[00:03:59]>> it like you've done something wrong.

[00:04:01]Exactly.

[00:04:01]>> all right cuz I can handle it. You know what I mean? Rather than like oh, it's no problem.

[00:04:07]You're welcome.

[00:04:08]Yeah, they say it instead of you're welcome. Something funny that I've heard Australians say that I really like actually is a feed, like a meal. They're going to eat some food. I'm just going for a quick feed. I'm here to grab myself a feed. I like that one. I think it's neat. They call liquor stores bottle bottle-os or bottle shops.

[00:04:26]And a lot of Australian bottle-os or bottle shops are drive-thru.

[00:04:31]Which is strange. We don't have that in Canada. Yeah, we don't got that in America. The shout out to to Australia.

[00:04:37]I don't know why we don't have that in the USA. You would think we got drive-thru everything else. Literally drive-thru everything else but a liquor store.

[00:04:44]Which I don't understand. That's really cool.

[00:04:47]But hey, bottle-o, like that.

[00:04:50]>> gas stations a servo.

[00:04:52]Like a servo.

[00:04:54]A servo.

[00:04:54]>> Station, I guess. We just call them gas stations. Uh they have this weird nickname for the afternoon called arvo.

[00:05:00]They'll say this arvo. Also, when I say it in my accent, everything sounds so harsh and like not cool, but yeah. Arvo, I didn't know what that was when I first got here, but it just means afternoon. They call McDonald's Maccas, which I'd never heard before. I've heard people call it Don's. In Canada, we call it Don's, Mickey D's, but I'd never heard Maccas. I've never heard I've never heard it called it Don's before.

[00:05:20]Don's. That's a new one. That's a Canadian one that that I have not had the chance of hearing. I've heard Maccas cuz I've traveled to Australia. So, Maccas, Mickey D's, McDonald's, the golden arches, uh Don's.

[00:05:35]No one calls it here. They call trucks utes. Never heard that one. They call candies lollies, which I thought lollies were just like a lollipop, but now it's like any kind of candy are called lollies. Oh, another thing they say instead of like no problem is no drama.

[00:05:51]Just kind of neat. They call sausages like hot dogs snags. Well, I guess more like smokies. And also Snags. Snags are smokies. Cuz a snag isn't a hot dog, is it? It's like a actual like different like type of sausage. And so a snag wouldn't be a hot dog. Correct me if I'm wrong. If I'm wrong, please please say so. I thought a snag was like a sausage, but not a hot dog. When they eat their hot dogs, they don't use hot dog buns.

[00:06:17]Everyone here uses white bread folded around Come on.

[00:06:22]>> which I thought was a little funny cuz the only time we really do that in Canada is when we like run out of hot dog buns, but they do that as their first option here.

[00:06:30]I also didn't know what a swag was until I came here. There are a lot of people that have swags, and they're basically just like a single tent thing that a single person can fit into. It's like a sleeping bag that a person can't fit into. Now, here are a couple of weird ones. A stubby is what they call a bottle a bottle holder like got or is it bottle like if they go into like a bottle shop or if they go into a bar, they'll ask for a stubby of something.

[00:06:58]That just means a bottle of something.

[00:07:00]If they want a can of something, they'll call it a tinny sometimes or a tin.

[00:07:04]Another weird thing they say instead of just thank you is they'll say thanking you.

[00:07:09]I've never heard anyone say thanking you before as thank you, but >> Thanking you?

[00:07:13]So, I appreciate it.

[00:07:15]Thanking you.

[00:07:17]Thanking you I'm thanking you for opening the door for me. That's that's new. Australia. I talked to Are these accurate? Cuz ain't nobody told me are they I ain't never heard nobody say thanking you in my life. They say it. And they also say ta. Like I didn't know what that was the first time someone said that to me. They'll say ta. Ta ta ta.

[00:07:36]Ta. Um but it just means thank you. Now, this one is just silly. Again, was very confused the first time I heard it was sanger. It means sandwich.

[00:07:44]>> Sandwich, yeah. Like a steak sanger. I got that one.

[00:07:46]>> Is a steak sandwich. But a ranga.

[00:07:49]>> it was more like a sanger.

[00:07:51]Sanger? Sanger? Thought it was like a sanger.

[00:07:54]A ranga. Is a redhead. Another thing Australians say that I never heard before here was it won't be a minute when they're trying to tell you like what they're about to do won't take long. In Canada I think we say like it'll just be a minute or just a second.

[00:08:08]They'll say like it won't be won't be a minute.

[00:08:11]>> [clears throat] >> And get this one, okay? I don't >> like it won't we'll do it so quick it won't even be a minute. Won't be a minute.

[00:08:17]Won't even be a minute.

[00:08:18]>> Doggy bag. What does that make you think of? A doggy bag makes me think of like the bag that you use to pick up your dog's waste when you go on a walk.

[00:08:27]>> not what I think of when a doggy bag. I think a doggy bag is like when I hear doggy bag I think of like you're taking food to go like in a doggy bag.

[00:08:38]That's what That's what I think of.

[00:08:40]But in Australia if someone asks for a doggy bag they're probably at a restaurant asking Yeah. if they can have a takeaway container. I don't know where that came from but I feel like I don't want to know the origins of that.

[00:08:53]If you're Australian or have been to Australia I would love for you to comment down below your favorite weird things that Australians say or things that you feel are very Australian to say like other than good day mate which they honestly like don't say that much. Or if you're not Australian and have never been I would love for you to tell me where you're from and what do you feel is the most like stereotypical things that are only really said where you're from. I'll leave you with that. As always thanks for hanging out with me today. I hope this video finds you well.

[00:09:23]I hope you're taking care of yourself and I will see you in the next one. Bye.

[00:09:27]I don't know the most stereotypical thing here in America.

[00:09:31]The United States of America.

[00:09:33]I don't know.

[00:09:35]Uh, I'd have to sit make a list, think about it. Uh That's all we got though. Let me know what you guys think about this list. Was it Was it fully accurate? Because there's a lot of things that you guys haven't told me that she just told me that I haven't heard.

[00:09:49]You know what I'm trying to say?

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