Originally posted by MrBarnett
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Hi Joshua,
Of course you're right, half-inch (pronounced arf-inch) rhymes with pinch, which is slang for steal. I've never heard of Ten being rhyming slang for Big Ben, surely its the other way round.
The list is a useful primer for foreign students, although there a few classics missing, GUT's China, for example.
There are a dozen or so in the list that I regularly use without thinking.
Gary
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Trouble and strife is on there twice as well, but considering how much trouble and strife I get into with mine that may be fitting!G U T
There are two ways to be fooled, one is to believe what isn't true, the other is to refuse to believe that which is true.
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Apparently Casebook is a "Wind and Kite" (website), according to an entry at the bottom of the following URL titled "How is Cockney slang developing?"
http://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk...rhyming_slang/
I like some of those used for money. Years ago (25-30 years) I was in the East End and heard a second hand car salesman say to somebody checking out a car that he'd do it for a monkey (£500)
http://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/subjects/moneyThese are not clues, Fred.
It is not yarn leading us to the dark heart of this place.
They are half-glimpsed imaginings, tangle of shadows.
And you and I floundering at them in the ever vainer hope that we might corral them into meaning when we will not.
We will not.
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Originally posted by Ozzy View PostApparently Casebook is a "Wind and Kite" (website), according to an entry at the bottom of the following URL titled "How is Cockney slang developing?"
http://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk...rhyming_slang/
I like some of those used for money. Years ago (25-30 years) I was in the East End and heard a second hand car salesman say to somebody checking out a car that he'd do it for a monkey (£500)
http://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/subjects/money
In Aus we have a few
Skipies (our $1 has Kangaroos in it)
A lobster, the color of our $20
A pineapple $50 is yellow
An apple $100 is greenG U T
There are two ways to be fooled, one is to believe what isn't true, the other is to refuse to believe that which is true.
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Originally posted by Joshua Rogan View PostI've never heard of a Commodore, before....that's brilliant!
GUT, what's a gorilla? (other than two monkeys)G U T
There are two ways to be fooled, one is to believe what isn't true, the other is to refuse to believe that which is true.
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Originally posted by MrBarnett View PostOver on JTR Forums Ed Stow has posted some photos. The museum is apparently not yet open.G U T
There are two ways to be fooled, one is to believe what isn't true, the other is to refuse to believe that which is true.
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