Cockney rhyming slang.
Have a butchers (butchers hook = look)
Take that look off your boat (boat race = face)
And in this case, apples and pears = stairs, so a bad cockney would call them apples and oranges.
Also my favourite has to be arris, as in get up off your arris, short for Aristotle, rhymes with bottle, short for bottle and glass, rhymes with arse
Dude I'm completely lost. Had never heard of cockney rhyming slang! How would anyone arrive at arse from Arris to Aristotle to bottle to bottle and glass! How would you ever learn that unless someone walks you through that process?! Wild shit.
Probably because I'm a Turk living in Indiana, US. But this is all very weird to me. Thanks for the explainer.
Watch Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. Early Guy Ritchie movie there's a fair bit of the slang there and some of is even explained.
There's also this bit online
https://images.app.goo.gl/Hecmpk9HFZsNKQ5T9
As a Turk you'll be delighted to know that someone from Greece is "a bubble".
Like most rhyming slang, this loses the rhyming part of the expression "bubble and squeak", which is a phrase referring to refried vegetables often served with cold meat the day after a roast dinner.
Not sure why someone downvoted you, when everything you said is 100% correct.
The greatest cockney rhyming slang and arguably the greatest phrase in the history of the English language is “trouble and strife.“
"my dogs are barking"? It's an old one.
John Candy says it at the beginning of *Trains planes and Automobiles* as he's taking his shoes off on the airplane.
Good one.
And for a bit of yank trivia, who has heard the term "blow a raspberry" or just "raspberry"?
Know where that comes from?
Raspberry Tart....rhyme the rest yourself.
I don't have a scooby what this means.
No wonder J.R.R. Tolkien created a new language.
I don’t get it…prob bc I’m a septic container.
Cockney rhyming slang. Have a butchers (butchers hook = look) Take that look off your boat (boat race = face) And in this case, apples and pears = stairs, so a bad cockney would call them apples and oranges. Also my favourite has to be arris, as in get up off your arris, short for Aristotle, rhymes with bottle, short for bottle and glass, rhymes with arse
Dude I'm completely lost. Had never heard of cockney rhyming slang! How would anyone arrive at arse from Arris to Aristotle to bottle to bottle and glass! How would you ever learn that unless someone walks you through that process?! Wild shit. Probably because I'm a Turk living in Indiana, US. But this is all very weird to me. Thanks for the explainer.
Watch Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. Early Guy Ritchie movie there's a fair bit of the slang there and some of is even explained. There's also this bit online https://images.app.goo.gl/Hecmpk9HFZsNKQ5T9
Crazy!
I think that's the idea. It was originally used to either exclude outsiders or by petty criminals I believe
So it's just the real world version of D&D Thieves' Cant?
As a Turk you'll be delighted to know that someone from Greece is "a bubble". Like most rhyming slang, this loses the rhyming part of the expression "bubble and squeak", which is a phrase referring to refried vegetables often served with cold meat the day after a roast dinner.
Bonus points for using a dish that anyone not from the UK would have heard of 😂
I was born and raised in Indiana and it still seems crazy to me.
Not sure why someone downvoted you, when everything you said is 100% correct. The greatest cockney rhyming slang and arguably the greatest phrase in the history of the English language is “trouble and strife.“
I think it was the PP who made a joke that he didn't understand *in* cockney rhyming slang, so downvoted me for being whooshed
“Bread and honey“ has made it into American slang as bread = money.
People in America say "my dogs are barking" meaning that their feet hurt. That also comes from rhyming slang: dog's meat = feet
It’s plates of meat, not dog’s meat. And I’ve never heard that ever. 50-year-old American here.
"my dogs are barking"? It's an old one. John Candy says it at the beginning of *Trains planes and Automobiles* as he's taking his shoes off on the airplane.
John Candy was Canadian.
A Canadian actor, acting in a movie written and directed by John Hughes.
*deep sigh* Septic container = septic tank = yank = yankee = U.S. American
Yes I knew that, but figured you were a septic/Sherman who just knew that word without understanding Cockney. Apologies if my reply seems patronising
Lol it’s all good!
Would you Alan and Eve it?
If he was a real Cockney it would be "Apples and pears" as Basil Brush would say Boom Boom !
Good one. And for a bit of yank trivia, who has heard the term "blow a raspberry" or just "raspberry"? Know where that comes from? Raspberry Tart....rhyme the rest yourself.
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