How To Use Rhyming slang In A Sentence
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You referred to the expression frisking a cly as Cockney rhyming slang.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
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Shameless cogging apart, his reliance on rhyming slang (‘He's gone down with a touch of rising damp) does him no favours.’
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Pony is Cockney rhyming slang, you see, as in pony and trap, geddit?
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He professed to feeling proudest of all about lending his name to rhyming slang.
Times, Sunday Times
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In fact they are using an affectionate piece of rhyming slang: boiled is short for boiled bean,
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Cockney rhyming slang
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The terms represent both old and new in the modern lexicon of Cockney rhyming slang.
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Those are Americans to those of you not versed in the poetry of rhyming slang.
The Sun
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I always thought it was cockney rhyming slang for the mushy dollop of pasty gloop my disaster-of-a-cook east-end nan served up when I stayed at her house as a kid.
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He would use rhyming slang for words that were slang already.
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A tea leaf was a thief, in rhyming slang.
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Now I fully understand why merchant banker is used as rhyming slang!
The Sun
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You must love being so famous that your name is cockney rhyming slang.
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He professed to feeling proudest of all about lending his name to rhyming slang.
Times, Sunday Times
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Those are Americans to those of you not versed in the poetry of rhyming slang.
The Sun
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Naturally, rhyming slang was adopted by anyone who wanted to introduce a few salty phrases into the conversation, without being unacceptably offensive.
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A couple of hundred years ago, England sent its prisoners to Australia to live out their prison sentences. Many people say Strine rhyming slang is evidence of Australia's convict past!
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He professed to feeling proudest of all about lending his name to rhyming slang.
Times, Sunday Times
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Those are Americans to those of you not versed in the poetry of rhyming slang.
The Sun
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Cockneys traditionally speak in a rhyming slang which supposedly originated among barrow boys who didn't want their customers to understand what they said to each other.
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Those are Americans to those of you not versed in the poetry of rhyming slang.
The Sun
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That sense goes back to Cockney rhyming slang, “to frisk a cly,” the allusion to which escapes me.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
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And who among us would call someone a silly berk if they knew that the word originates from rhyming slang ‘Berkshire Hunt’?
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Rhyming slang was part of the general patter of traders and others, used as much for amusement as for secret communication.
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It is rhyming slang for 'hench' — a word that signifies an approval of something.
The Sun
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According to one reader, who for the sake of his career shall remain nameless, ecstasy tablets on Merseyside at the time owed their nickname to a piece of rhyming slang derived from the former Liverpool defender Gary Ablett.
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Now I fully understand why merchant banker is used as rhyming slang!
The Sun
