quicko: no worries

I just appalled myself by looking back over my blog and realizing that there was not a single post! that included, much less defined, the phrase, "no worries." This is really one of the most quintessentially Australian phrases I can think of; they use it absolutely all the time. It's also one of the easier ones for an American to pick up without sounding as much an impostor as if she tried, say, "good on ya." "No worries" is a standard, "don't worry about it, all good" sort of phrase. Highly useful, and always good to hear, particularly after you've made a dastard mistake, such as, say, shooting down someone's tall puppy.