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These two famous sayings have been rewritten into traditional Australian slang. Can you decipher them and rewrite them into correct English prose? Good luck!
1. Make sure you're a dead cert to put your plates of meat in the right spot, then be you'd best not move a muscle.
2. The whole bang lot's ruddy-well hilarious as long as its happening to some other bloke.
1. Make sure you're a dead cert to put your plates of meat in the right spot, then be you'd best not move a muscle.
2. The whole bang lot's ruddy-well hilarious as long as its happening to some other bloke.
Hint
Hopefully you may have seen 'Crocodile Dundee' for some help with this language.Answer
1. Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
'dead cert': a certainty; beyond doubt; a sure winner.
'plates of meat': rhythmic slang for 'feet'.
'right spot': the correct place.
'best be': should be; it's a good idea to be.
'not to move a muscle': stand firm; don't move under any circumstance.
2. Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.
Will Rogers (1878-1935)
'The whole bang lot': Everything
'ruddy-well': an Australian universal intensifying adjective that was inherited from England.
'hilarious': something funny.
'bloke': A typical Australian expression that means a person.
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