Flat out like a lizard drinking

To be not busy.

As a visual metaphor, it implies the opposite to the expression ‘flat out’. A lizard drinking is visually flat against the ground, still, stationary, prostrate, prone and apparently inactive - the opposite of what a person is like when they are busy.

The primary definition that I heard for years amongst colleagues and friends fluent in Strine was the 'not busy' version. It was only recently that I have heard it used to mean 'hard at work' or 'busy'. It feels that the traditional components of visual metaphor and humour in the Strine lexicon have been lost or the expression misconstrued at some point.

Flat out like a lizard drinking -

"Man it's quiet here. You busy?"
“Busy? Flat out… like a lizard drinking… hehehe.”

by InterlocutorInThe1st October 27, 2020

sweating like a kiddie fiddler in a barney suit

To perspire heavily in a dangerous or threatening situation.

The bank robber was sweating like a kiddie fiddler in a barney suit when the cops arrived.

by drumsofdeath March 11, 2009

My back hurts like an armadillo shell

When you´re stiff and your back hurts.

Friend 1: How are you feeling today?
Friend 2: Im good but my back hurts like an armadillo shell.

by Sweden04 January 23, 2023

and i was like baby baby baby ohhh

A hilarious line from a song I don't know.

Meh: Listens to some random song**
Headphones: AND I WAS LIKE BABY BABY BABY OHHH LIKE BABY BABY BABY OHHH LIKE BABY BABY BABY OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Meh: WHAT THE SUSSY VIBES IS THIS SONG (Make sure to look up what sussy vibes mean.)

by an orangutan who died on November 23, 2021

It smells like dead rat mixed with eggs

Jeremy Lynch usually says it when it smells bad

His friend: (farts)

Jeremy Lynch: It smells like dead rat mixed with eggs

by Eejejejeje July 21, 2022

Ur next generation likes anal penetration

The absolute worst insult that has ever existed every time it is said a black hole opens up some where in the universe.

Tim: ur mom gay
John: ur dad lesbian
Tim: ur sister a mister
John: don't make me say it
Tim: do it, I dare you
John: ur next generation likes anal penetration.
Tim : (immediately disintegrates while screaming)

by Dingo dongiloid June 2, 2018

Rango's Neck Be Lookin' Like Ur Momma's

An insult; To say one's mother's neck is bent or crooked like Rango the lizard's; to Claim that one's mother's neck has been yeeted in such a way that it is now misshapen. ; yeeting someone's neck to the point of exhaustion in which the aftermath resorts to a bent crooked neck, such as Rango's.

; He claimed that Rango's Neck be lookin' Like ur Momma's.
; Rango's Neck be lookin' like ur Momma's, I stated.

by The One who has Youghted December 7, 2018