Hard yakka
Hard physical work.
Person 1"How was the move?"
Person 2"Hard yakka. Never buying a piano again."
"Shifting that slab was hard yakka, I need a sit down."
Where it's from
From yaga, a word for work in Yagara, a language of the Brisbane area, picked up in the 1800s.
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While you're here
A day off sick when you're not sick. Chucking a sickie is a fundamental right of all Aussies.
Paramedic, or the ambulance they turned up in.
The pokies. Poker machines at the pub or club.
Make a living. "What do you do to earn a crust?" means what is your job?
I'm here to get on with it, not muck around.
Someone so unproductive that having them on the team is the same as being one person down.
