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[SA] Constitutionally Speaking (S. Afr.) 26 Oct. 🌐 Every Tom, Dick and Harry including the dead that have worken up from their graves were crying lack of leadership.
at Tom, Dick and Harry, n.
[SA] Constitutionally Speaking 29 Oct. 🌐 ‘Bliksems’ — the cloest one could come in English here is ‘poor blighters’.
at bliksem, n.
[SA] Constitutionally Speaking (S. Afr.) 26 Oct. 🌐 The other day I overheard a woman calling her boyfriend a ‘fokken blikskottel’. Right there in the street [...] Actually ‘fokken blikskottel’ is one of the softer ways of expressing disdain.
at blikskottel, n.
[SA] Constitutionally Speaking 29 Oct. 🌐 Obvious bull manure, the poor die, the rich get laid and live.
at bullshit, n.
[SA] Constitutionally Speaking (S. Afr.) 26 Oct. 🌐 Another example is ‘bliksem’ as compared to ‘donner’’.
at donner, v.
[SA] Constitutionally Speaking 28 Oct. 🌐 This judgement doesn’t show that he is a doos’.
at doos, n.
[SA] Constitutionally Speaking (S. Afr.) 28 Oct. 🌐 As fvor Zapiro — a double ‘duh!’ is in order’.
at duh!, excl.
[SA] Constitutionally Speaking (S. Afr.) 26 Oct. 🌐 His online CV and profile excludes any refrence to [...] allegations of having been involved in any dirty hankypanky stuff.
at hankypanky, adj.
[SA] Constitutionally Speaking (S. Afr.) 26 Oct. 🌐 My sweetie says only those who indigenously understand Afrikaans can really understand its meaning.
at sweetie, n.
[SA] Constitutionally Speaking (S. Afr.) 26 Oct. 🌐 A ‘tannie’ wanted to know if [etc.].
at tannie, n.
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