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Old Feb 5, 2001 | 11:07 am
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GG
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"chock-a-block" is certainly used in the US too.

"truckie" - in the US, a trucker.

"bogged" - stuck in the mud. There was a recent FT trip report where some folks got bogged. Not to be confused with The Bog (British), i.e. the Loo.

Cockney rhyming slang goes back a very long way indeed; presumably it came to Oz with early settlers?

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