Breakfast Bonus: Kiwi slang

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An American woman is confused by Kiwi slang. So today we're going through her list to see if we all know what they mean

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Coast Breakfast Bonus Podcast with Tony Jason Sam.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Thanks for listening to a Breakfast Bonus podcast. Today, we're
talking about Kiwi slang and this has come from an
American tourist who doesn't understand what we say. It's like that.
So I've got what she was saying, should be easy
as bears. So let's have a listen.

Speaker 3 (00:19):
Okay, anyone say easy as bears?

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Of course the okay, no, get it?

Speaker 4 (00:26):
Two l This is what she says.

Speaker 5 (00:29):
Number one is I think it's chalk and cheese. I
can't really hear if it was talking cheese or chalk
and cheese, but someone used it the other day and
I know it's probably just like saying here, but my god.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
I have no idea what it mean chalk and cheese.
What would you say?

Speaker 3 (00:42):
Chalk and cheese means, chalk and cheese means when two
things are exact opposites. You like, we were like chalk
and cheese on our views.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
Yeah, but you still get long. I'd say it's like
you're into the yan chalk and cheese.

Speaker 3 (00:55):
You know, I don't think like quite often you'll use
this to describe your kids, and I'll say that my
daughter is a chalk and cheese.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
Yeah, okay, one.

Speaker 4 (01:02):
They're not chalk and chalk or cheese and cheese.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Right, Okay, we that one. Here we go.

Speaker 5 (01:08):
Number two. I heard someone say this the other day,
caught out, and there was talking about something to do
with drinking. But I just didn't understand, like what it means.
Maybe it's just like not all there too many to
kill us. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
Called out is it a drinking term? Caught out out?

Speaker 4 (01:23):
Caught out just means you've been caught. You've been sprung.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
Unless that person tried to take the next day off
and say they were sick, but they got caught out
because they had actually be drinking too much the night before.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
That's not slangers that, it's just exactly what the word infurs.

Speaker 4 (01:35):
You have been caught out.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Being caught out, match, I started to question the validity
of your witness at this point. All right, that's what
you say for the third one?

Speaker 5 (01:44):
Number three is cruisy. I kind of have a gas
of just like being funny.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
I think no, crazy crazy means you're just happy to
go along with what back and crazy is seen as
a really good quality in New Zealand. Oh she's I'm crazy.

Speaker 4 (01:59):
Just what he venue.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
Cruise? Yeah, the re is the world sesus is complacent.

Speaker 4 (02:06):
Yes, yeah, you know and not decisive enough.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
Yeah, that's you're going all the flow. Okay, here we go.

Speaker 5 (02:11):
My last one is calling everything mean like I understand
what like people mean, but I feel like nobody actually
uses the word mean as like you.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
Know, mean like a bully, mean as that's mean.

Speaker 4 (02:23):
That's a mean chocolate cake.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
You've got a mean chocolate cake. Yeah, And that that's
a great example of how ridiculous we are because why
would we say mean mean?

Speaker 4 (02:32):
But if I said, have you said to me? Have
I said to you? How was theater when you eat mean?
I'd go, I ha hit a great.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
Yeah, yeah, you're right. How the people mean?

Speaker 3 (02:41):
They weren't mean. Maybe that's what happened with the Bender
and Jody. Maybe they were actually mean to you, and
that's why you are.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
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