Mixed Bag

[Bluenose]

The Navy has a few odd expressions:

An officer's annual report includes what is called a "flimsy" a short summary.  

The most desired flimsy simply states This officer has conducted himself to my entire satisfaction.
Not quite so satisfactory is This officer has conducted himself to my satisfaction.

Probably apocryphal flimsies include:

This officer has conducted himself to his entire satisfaction.

This officer has used my ship as a means of transport from one cocktail party to the next.

There are also a number of terms not usually encountered in ordinary (land lubber) conversation:
goffa - any carbonated soft drink
maccas - sweets or lollies (candy to the USians)
scran - food (an acronym for Sh*t Cooked by the Royal Australian Navy)
redders - tomato sauce (ketchup)
maggot bag - a meat pie
duff - any type of steamed pudding
banyan - a barbeque
the goofers - a location high on the island of the carrier where one can view air operations in (relative) safety
the squarie - one's spouse, a reference to a ship being square rigged as opposed to fore and aft rigged like a yacht which is relatively free of the wind
round rig - uniform worn by junior sailors
square rig - uniform worn by senior sailors and officers
make and mend - officially granted free time during working hours, particularly knocking off early

Just a few, there are many more, a lot of which are far too vulgar to include here!

[Opsa]

Oh, my delicate sensibilities! 

Yesterday I saw a license plate that read "OOROO", and remembered our Ozzie neighbors who said "OOROO" for "goodbye".

[Swatopluk]

German has the strange idiom 'in (a) monkey tooth' (in einem Affenzahn) for 'very fast'

[Bluenose]

Oh, my delicate sensibilities!  

Yesterday I saw a license plate that read "OOROO", and remembered our Ozzie neighbors who said "OOROO" for "goodbye".

Way back when after my paternal grandparents had migrated to Oz from Pommieland (UK), they had met a couple at some function or other who had said "see you later" when they left which is Ozzie for goodbye, just like ooroo.  My grandparents waited up quite late for them to come around "later".

[Aggie]

"See you later" is standard phrasing here.  Surely it's spread since?

I can't recall if it's an Aussie or Pommie phrase, but I heard a story once about the phrase "I'll knock you up in the morning" being said to a woman from the US, and causing some raised eyebrows.

In Amrikan, it means something entirely different than knocking on the door.   

[Bluenose]

Yes,  rather like saying that you root for some football team - this expression will be met with surprise and much hilarity because in Strine* root when used as a verb means something altogether more fundamentally biological.  Here we say that you barrack for your team.

*Strine = broad Australian English

[Swatopluk]

Is there anything with more synonyms/euphemisms than 'it'?
"Oh, that's what you call it these days?"

[Opsa]

We say "see you later" or "catch you later" in the U.S. I always thought of "ooroo" as sort of like "tootle-oo", which is not used here very much any more.

Our Ozzie neighbors also called cats "pussies", which made us giggle like the immature jerks we were. Ah, youth... My mother thought they were telling her to take cyanide for a headache, but they were suggesting Sine-Aid, a sinus headache medicine!

[Bluenose]

I have been known to say when departing "Well, I'll be off now, like a bucket of prawns in the sun".

[pieces o nine]

Or... "make like a tree, and leaf."

Or... (and this *only* in a very small town!) "make like a baby, and head out."



 

[Swatopluk]

In German a common colloquial term for cat is Muschi, which has the same connotations as pussy in English.

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

Make like the shepherd, and let's get the flock outta here.

[Swatopluk]

As an aside on the dogcatcher issue:
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/barton-if-dogcatcher-not-good-sharia-keep-em-out-office

[Aggie]

It's not a common expression, but one descriptor for a difficult task that I like:

"It's like taking the 'f' out of _{(the word)} 'way'."



_{for those who are scratching their heads: there's no f in way}   

[Swatopluk]

for those who are scratching their heads: there's no f in way   

...unless of course you are German in a US movie