Apples and pears= stairs, Trouble and strife= wife, Dog and bone= phone, Whistle and toot= suit, Claret= blood
2007-03-27 00:42:56
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answer #1
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answered by Pseudonym45 4
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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
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answered by Anonymous
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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
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answer #3
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answered by olly_olemassa 2
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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
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answer #4
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answered by halifaxed 5
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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
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answered by RAGGYPANTS 4
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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
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answer #6
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answered by LadyOok 3
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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
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answer #7
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answered by peachesandcream 4
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Steaming twit
2007-03-27 00:44:08
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answer #8
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answered by jack y 4
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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
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answer #9
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answered by Anonymous
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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
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answer #10
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answered by Sexy Sel 5
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