THE Aussies sure have a wonderful turn of phrase and thankfully, their sports reporters and commentators don’t refrain from reflecting that. Among this writer’s particular favourites is the term “selling the candy’’ to describe fooling an opponent with a dummy move.

The best, to my mind though, is “the old Don’t Argue’’, which is quintessentially Australian. It refers to a player fending off an attempted tackle in either of the rugby codes or Aussie rules, using a palm or forearm, pushing into the chest with vehemence. If successful, the would-be tackler ends up floored.