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Day: June 21, 2005

There will be a test later on

Posted on June 21, 2005 By admin

Adam and Eve = believe ('would you adam and eve it?')

Arstotle = Bottle

Cobblers (cobblers awls, or cobblers stalls) = Balls ('you're talking cobblers')

Boat (boat race) = face

Bobble (Bobble hat and scarf) = laugh (“you're having a bobble”, ie., you cannot be serious)

Brahms (Brahms and Liszt) = pissed

Brass Tacks = Facts ('let's get down to brass tacks')

Bread (bread and honey) = money

Bird (bird lime) = Time (prison)

Bristols (Bristol Cities) = titties (breasts)

Brown Bread = dead

Butchers (butchers hook) = look ('give us butchers..')

Charlie (Charlie Hunt) = (yes you guessed it again – remember it next time you call someone a right charlie)

Chewy toffee = coffee

China (china plate) = mate ('me old china')

Cloud seven = heaven

Crust (crust of bread) = head

Dickie Bird = word

Dickie Dirt = shirt

Dipstick = prick (bet you never knew that was rhyming slang)

Dog and bone = phone

Duch (duchess of Fife) = wife ('me old Duch')

Dunlop Tyre = liar

Earwig = twig (understand, to catch on – now evolved to mean eavesdrop)

Elephants (elephants trunk) = drunk

Flying duck = (yes you guessed it – and now more commonly evolved back to give the expression 'couldn't give a flying fuck')

Greens (greengages) = wages (money)

Ginger (ginger beer) = queer (homosexual)

Jam jar = car

Joe Soap = dope (stupid man)

Khyber (Khyber Pass) = arse

Loaf (loaf of bread) = head ('use your loaf')

Marbles (marbles and conkers) = bonkers (mad – probably the root of the expression 'lost your marbles' meaning gone mad)

Merchant banker = wanker

Micky (Micky Bliss) = Piss (the origin of 'taking the micky' – bet you never knew that)

Moby Dick = sick

Mutton (Mutt and Jeff) = deaf (originally from an American fictional pair of bungling characters called Mutt and Jeff, popularised by the cartoonist HC 'Bud' Fischer in the 1930's)

Nellie Duff = puff (breath, evolved into 'not on your nellie' – puff being breath, and breath being life)

Old bag = hag (horrible woman – bet you never knew that was rhyming slang.)

Pipe (pipe and drum) = bum

Pony (pony and trap) = crap

Porky (pork pie) = lie (fib)

Raspberry (raspberry tart) = fart (evolved to include 'blowing a raspberry' with the tongue)

Razzmatazz = jazz (evolved to mean general excitement)

Rubber/rubber dub (Rub-a-dub-dub) = Pub (or club)

Tea leaf = thief

Tiddly (tiddly wink) = drink (now evolved to mean drunk)

Titfer (Tit for tat) = hat

Tod (Tod Sloane) = alone, (on your own – 'on your tod')

Toe rag = slag (originally meaning a girl of easy virtue, but now evolved to mean an unpleasant person)

Tom (tomfoolery) = jewellery ('Tom' now means any stolen goods)

Trombone = phone

Trouble (trouble and strife) = wife

Two and eight = state ('in a right old two and eight')

Uncle Dick = sick

Vera Lynn = gin

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