Cockney Rhyming Slang
Work out from the context the meanings of these examples of Cockney Rhyming Slang:
Freddie Whistler was all on his own. His trouble and strife had gone to stay with her skin and blister. The night before Freddie had gone to the pub to celebrate the fact that he was being spared some of her usual rabbiting on and their usual bulls and cows. He had had quite a few pints of pig's ear and had come home from the pub absolutely Brahms and Liszt.
He was still in Uncle Ned but the currant bun was already starting to shine through the curtains, so he had a butcher's at the dickory dock to see what the bird lime was. He got up, found the Cape of Good Hope and had a wash. He put on some clean almonds because the old ones pen and ink-ed a bit. Then he put on his round the houses and a clean Dicky Dirt, and went down the apples to make himself some Rosy Lea.
He couldn't find the you and me at first so he decided to use his loaf a bit, and he found it in the end. When he'd finished his Rosy, he decided to get out the jam jar to go down the frog and toad to see an old china of his who lived round the Johnnie Horner, so he put his plates in his daisies and his pipe in his north and south, ran a comb through his Barnet, took his titfer and went out.
trouble and strife |
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skin and blister |
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rabbit and pork |
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bull and cow |
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pig's ear |
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Brahms and Liszt |
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Uncle Ned |
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currant bun |
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butcher's hook |
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dickory dock |
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bird lime |
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Cape of Good Hope |
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almond rocks |
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pen and ink |
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round the houses |
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Dicky Dirt |
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apples and pears |
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Rosy Lea |
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you and me |
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loaf of bread |
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jam jar |
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frog and toad |
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china plate |
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Johnnie Horner |
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plates of meat |
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daisy roots |
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north and south |
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Barnet fair |
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tit for tat |
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© Nigel J. Ross, 2002
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