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Adam and Eve = believe ('would you adam and eve it?')<\/p>\n
Arstotle = Bottle<\/p>\n
Cobblers (cobblers awls, or cobblers stalls) = Balls ('you're talking cobblers')<\/p>\n
Boat (boat race) = face<\/p>\n
Bobble (Bobble hat and scarf) = laugh (“you're having a bobble”, ie., you cannot be serious)<\/p>\n
Brahms (Brahms and Liszt) = pissed<\/p>\n
Brass Tacks = Facts ('let's get down to brass tacks')<\/p>\n
Bread (bread and honey) = money<\/p>\n
Bird (bird lime) = Time (prison)<\/p>\n
Bristols (Bristol Cities) = titties (breasts)<\/p>\n
Brown Bread = dead<\/p>\n
Butchers (butchers hook) = look ('give us butchers..')<\/p>\n
Charlie (Charlie Hunt) = (yes you guessed it again – remember it next time you call someone a right charlie)<\/p>\n
Chewy toffee = coffee<\/p>\n
China (china plate) = mate ('me old china')<\/p>\n
Cloud seven = heaven<\/p>\n
Crust (crust of bread) = head<\/p>\n
Dickie Bird = word<\/p>\n
Dickie Dirt = shirt<\/p>\n
Dipstick = prick (bet you never knew that was rhyming slang)<\/p>\n
Dog and bone = phone<\/p>\n
Duch (duchess of Fife) = wife ('me old Duch')<\/p>\n
Dunlop Tyre = liar<\/p>\n
Earwig = twig (understand, to catch on – now evolved to mean eavesdrop)<\/p>\n
Elephants (elephants trunk) = drunk<\/p>\n
Flying duck = (yes you guessed it – and now more commonly evolved back to give the expression 'couldn't give a flying fuck')<\/p>\n
Greens (greengages) = wages (money)<\/p>\n
Ginger (ginger beer) = queer (homosexual)<\/p>\n
Jam jar = car<\/p>\n
Joe Soap = dope (stupid man)<\/p>\n
Khyber (Khyber Pass) = arse<\/p>\n
Loaf (loaf of bread) = head ('use your loaf')<\/p>\n
Marbles (marbles and conkers) = bonkers (mad – probably the root of the expression 'lost your marbles' meaning gone mad)<\/p>\n
Merchant banker = wanker<\/p>\n
Micky (Micky Bliss) = Piss (the origin of 'taking the micky' – bet you never knew that)<\/p>\n
Moby Dick = sick<\/p>\n
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)<\/p>\n
Nellie Duff = puff (breath, evolved into 'not on your nellie' – puff being breath, and breath being life)<\/p>\n
Old bag = hag (horrible woman – bet you never knew that was rhyming slang.)<\/p>\n
Pipe (pipe and drum) = bum<\/p>\n
Pony (pony and trap) = crap<\/p>\n
Porky (pork pie) = lie (fib)<\/p>\n
Raspberry (raspberry tart) = fart (evolved to include 'blowing a raspberry' with the tongue)<\/p>\n
Razzmatazz = jazz (evolved to mean general excitement)<\/p>\n
Rubber\/rubber dub (Rub-a-dub-dub) = Pub (or club)<\/p>\n
Tea leaf = thief<\/p>\n
Tiddly (tiddly wink) = drink (now evolved to mean drunk)<\/p>\n
Titfer (Tit for tat) = hat<\/p>\n
Tod (Tod Sloane) = alone, (on your own – 'on your tod')<\/p>\n
Toe rag = slag (originally meaning a girl of easy virtue, but now evolved to mean an unpleasant person)<\/p>\n
Tom (tomfoolery) = jewellery ('Tom' now means any stolen goods)<\/p>\n
Trombone = phone<\/p>\n
Trouble (trouble and strife) = wife<\/p>\n
Two and eight = state ('in a right old two and eight')<\/p>\n
Uncle Dick = sick<\/p>\n
Vera Lynn = gin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 =…<\/p>\n