Here is the cockney slang used in the little adendum to this month's update. People really use these, I did not make anything up. Believe it.....or not!
dog and bone....rhymes with telephone
china plate...rhymes with mate
butchers hook...look
ball of chalk...walk
whistle and flute...suit
sky....pocket
saucepan...kid (also seen as saucepan and lid)
frog and toad...road
plates of meat...feet
barnet fair...hair
apples and pears...stairs
skin and blister...sister
cream crackered...knackered (tired)
Pete Tong...wrong
mince pies...eyes
tea leaf...thief
half inch...pinch (or steal)
mutt and jeff...deaf
penned and inked...stinked (or stunk as it were)
loaf of bread...head
barney rubble...trouble (also referenced in Ocean's Eleven as I recall)
septic tank...yank, or someone from the USA
duchess of fife...wife
two and eight...state, like agitated baby
dicky bird...word
brown bread...dead
adam and eve...believe
boat race...face
bread and honey...money
borassic lint...skint, or moneyless
bob's your uncle...there you go
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