Expressions you and a few other people use but aren't common

[Deset Gled]

Another thread just reminded me that I still use the word "strategery".

 

[DrunkonDuty]

I'm an old(ish) Australian. I use a lot of old(ish) and just plain old Australianisms. I was also exposed to a lot of old American slang care of my grand father (he picked it up from the yanks during the war.) And then there's my English dad and the endless run of British TV I grew up on.

At this point I don't really differentiate between any of these various strands of isms. This can lead to some confused looks when I manage to throw in half a dozen different isms into a converesation, none of them from the same decade and country as the others.

But there's one phraser I'm fond of. I picked it up as a nipper from a show called Porridge.

"Don't let the bastards grind you down."

It's as good advice now as it was then.

 

[Mannahnin]

"Viking weather", to describe when it's a bit rainy/snowy/drizzly out, but not enough to soak you unless you're out in it for an extended period, and not bad enough to freeze or chill you if you're active.

The kind of weather which would be unpleasant and discouraging to stand around in for hours as a sentry, but trivial to a raider, and therefore helpful to them. Which IIRC I probably got from a Bernard Cornwell novel.