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Originally posted by MrBarnett
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Yeah I think it should be "Cobbler's awls".G U T
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Nice one, MrBarnett. Ever since seeing those adverts, I've never been able to work out why rabbit=talk. Now a tea-towel provides the answer :-)
Not that it provides the last word...I'm pretty sure half inch=pinch, not steal; that doesn't even rhyme.Comment
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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.
GaryComment
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Yes, definitely a few obvious ones missing (not through lack of space as I see Damon Hill is on there twice). But it's probably best that Berkeley Hunt didn't make it...Comment
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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
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In Aus Todd Sloane would be Pat Malone. But mean the same. Often shortened to "on me pat".G U T
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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?"
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)
These 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.Comment
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It's a monkey because it is half a Gorilla.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?"
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
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I've never heard of a Commodore, before....that's brilliant!
GUT, what's a gorilla? (other than two monkeys)Comment
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A gorilla is a grand or $1,000.Originally posted by Joshua Rogan View PostG U T
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I thought it must be, but that's another one I've never heard before.
I've probably never had enough money to worry about slang for that much!Comment
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Over on JTR Forums Ed Stow has posted some photos. The museum is apparently not yet open.Comment
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Thanks I'll never see it. A bit too far.Originally posted by MrBarnett View PostG U T
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I'm not sure how I feel about Spetic Tank being Cockney for a Yank. . .Comment
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Isn't "yank" pretty derogatory in itself?Comment
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