Once you go ‘up the guts into ‘em’ and commit ‘head over biscuit’ to the process, you’ll be speaking the lingo of the Honey Badger in no time.
If you haven’t yet heard of Nick ‘The Honey Badger’ Cummins, then you really are missing out. The man responsible for some of the greatest post-match interviews in the history of sport has a lingo that is distinctly Australian yet completely unique at the same time and hard though it is to understand at the best of times, it’s great to listen to all the same.
We’d hazard a guess that his fellow Australians have trouble grasping what he’s trying to say at times, so we can only imagine what it’s like for people from outside Australia to have to listen to him on a daily basis. Generous type that he is, Nick decided to educate some of his foreign Western Force colleagues with some language lessons in a special segment for Rugby HQ on Fox Australia.
Unfortunately there was no mention of phrases such as ‘sweating like a gypsy with a mortgage’ and other Honey Badger classics but there were plenty of Honey Badger gems in there and full marks to anyone who can accurately translate the phrase below, which proved a bit too much for Cummins’ colleagues…
“Get on the dog and bone, book a left jab to the billabong, bend the elbow with a few pigs’ ears and chew a bit of fat with a couple of China plates.”
Video via YouTube/Fox Sports Australia
