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2007-03-27 00:40:43 · 18 answers · asked by qprbone 1 in Education & Reference Words & Wordplay

18 answers

Apples and pears= stairs, Trouble and strife= wife, Dog and bone= phone, Whistle and toot= suit, Claret= blood

2007-03-27 00:42:56 · answer #1 · answered by Pseudonym45 4 · 0 0

There are hundreds of them - too many to list here.

My favourites though are:

Britneys ------ Britney Spears - Beers
Peckham ---- Peckham Rye - Tie
Billy ----------- Billy Goat - Coat
Hollies ------- Holly Hocks - Socks
Plates -------- Plates of Meat - Feet
Germans ---- German Bands - Hands
Thruppenny - Thruppenny Bits - ****
Rasberries - Rasberry Ripples - Nipples (sometimes cripple)
Pony ---------- Pony and Trap - Crap
Berk ---------- Berkshire Hunt - I'll let you figure that one out
Scarper ----- Scapa Flow - Go
Ayrton ------- Ayrton Senna - Tenner
Lady ---------- Lady Godiva - Fiver
Vera Lynn --- Gin
Lionels ------- Lionel Blairs - Flares (as in trousers)
Ruby ---------- Ruby Murray - Curry
Hampsteads - Hampstead Heath - Teeth
Septic --------- Septic Tank - Yank
Sweaty -------- Sweaty Sock - Jock (slang for a Scot)

As I said, far too many to list here - I would recommend the website given by LBUK above.


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2007-03-27 00:44:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

We all know raspberry (don't we?) - u know the sound we make with our tongue out through our lips.
Apparently comes from "raspberry tart" = fart
Most of the cockney rhyming slang is shortened to make a "code" word

2007-03-27 00:58:43 · answer #3 · answered by olly_olemassa 2 · 0 0

Here is a small selection. Click on the link below and then on the alphabet on the sidebar for a complete list.
Adam and Eve - Rhyming Slang for 'believe', e.g. "Would you Adam and Eve it mate!".
Alan Whicker(s) - Rhyming Slang for 'knickers'.
Annabel Giles - Modern Rhyming Slang for 'piles' (haemorrhoids).
apple core - Rhyming Slang for 'score' meaning £20.
Barnet fair - normally shortened to 'Barnet' - Rhyming Slang for 'hair'. eg "I'm 'avin my Barnet chopped on sa'aday !" (I'm having my hair cut on Saturday).
battle cruiser - Rhyming Slang for 'boozer', meaning pub (public house).
boat race - Rhyming Slang for 'face'. eg "She looks awright from behind, but you wanna see the boat mate".
Bob Hope - Modern Rhyming Slang for 'dope' (cannabis). i.e. "I'm off out to get some Bob".
Brahms and Liszt - Rhyming Slang for 'pissed' (drunk), used in it's full form.
butchers - Rhyming Slang , short for for 'butchers hook' meaning 'look'. A very common example of rhyming slang, usual examples are "give us a butchers" or "let's av a butchers".
Chas'n'Dave - Modern Rhyming Slang for 'shave'

2007-03-27 00:53:46 · answer #4 · answered by halifaxed 5 · 0 0

Off the top of my head without looking anywhere, just answering;
apples and pears stairs
plates of meat feet
skin and blister sister
berkley hunt see you next tuesday

2007-03-30 11:46:07 · answer #5 · answered by RAGGYPANTS 4 · 0 0

One that I haven't seen listed in other answers is "skin and blister" - sister

And I know "Gregory Peck" as cheque - but there's Sussex rhyming slang too, so it may be from there. Example "I'm off down the frog to sausage a Gregory." I'm off down the (frog and toad) road to (sausage and mash) cash a (Gregory Peck) cheque.

2007-03-27 07:56:05 · answer #6 · answered by LadyOok 3 · 0 1

apple and pears - stairs
dog and bone - phone
rosie lea - tea
ruby murray - curry
mutton jeff - deaf
derby rut - gut
boat race - face
bob squash and a dig in the grave - wash and a shave
trouble and strife - wife
whistle and flute - suit

2007-03-27 00:45:48 · answer #7 · answered by peachesandcream 4 · 0 1

Steaming twit

2007-03-27 00:44:08 · answer #8 · answered by jack y 4 · 0 0

None. They are a load of ham shankers. They think they're so chicken plucking clever when infact they are just a bunch of unmitigated losses.

2007-03-27 00:44:54 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

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

Alan Wickers = knickers (of more recent origin, as featured in the film 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels': "keep yer alan's on...")

Apples and pears = stairs

April (April in Paris) = Aris (from Arstotle = Bottle, from Bottle and glass = ****)

Attila (Attila the Hun) = two-one (2i, an upper 2nd class UK university degree)

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

Brassic (boracic lint) = skint (penniless)

Barnet (Barnet fair) = hair

Basil (Basil Fawlty) = balti (curry)

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

Berk or Burk (Berkeley Hunt) = (yes you guessed it - now you know what you're really saying when you call someone a Berk)

Bird (bird lime) = Time (prison)

Bowler Hat = Cat

Bristols (Bristol Cities) = titties (breasts)

Brown Bread = dead

Bubble (Barf/Bath) = laugh ('you 'avin' a bubble?..')

(Buckshee is not cockney rhyming slang for 'free', as some sources suggest, including here previously. I am grateful to Huw Thomas for pointing me in the right direction about the actual origins of Buckshee.)

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

Canoes = shoes

Chalfonts (Chalfont St Giles) = piles (Haemorrhoids)

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

Daisy Roots = boots

Desmond (Desmond Tutu) = two-two (2ii, a lower 2nd class UK university degree)

Dickie Bird = word

Dickie Dirt = shirt

Ding dong = sing song (now evolved to mean argument or fight)

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

Dog and bone = phone

Douglas Hurd = third (third class university degree) or turd

D'Oyly Carte = fart

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

Duke of Cork = talk

Dunlop Tyre = liar

Dustbin lids = kids

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

Elephants (elephants trunk) = drunk

Farmers (farmer Giles) = piles (haemorrhoids)

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

Frog and Toad = road

Geoff Hurst = first (a 1st class university degree)

Greens (greengages) = wages (money)

Ginger (ginger beer) = queer (homosexual)

Half inch = pinch (steal)

Hampstead Heath = teeth

Hillman Hunter = punter (customer - Hillman Hunter was a car from the 1960's)

Hit and miss = kiss or piss

Holy ghost = toast

Iron (iron hoof) = poof (homosexual)

Jack Jones = alone, (on your own - 'On your Jack')

Jacob's (Crackers) = knackers (testicles)

Jackanory = story (tall tale)

Jam jar = car

Khyber (Khyber Pass) = ****

Lionel Blairs = flares (flared trousers)

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

Mother's ruin = gin

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

Minces (mince pies) = eyes

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)

Nutmeg = leg (leading to the soccer term 'nutmeg', meaning to play the ball between your opponent's legs.)

North and south = mouth

Orchestra stalls = balls (testicles)

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

On the floor = poor

Oxo (Oxo cube) = tube (the London Underground train system)

Pen (pen and ink) = stink

Plates of meat = feet

Pipe (pipe and drum) = bum

Pipe your Eye = cry

2007-03-27 03:20:40 · answer #10 · answered by Sexy Sel 5 · 0 1

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