[Misc] Cockney rhyming slang quizz

[wellquickwoody]

14/15 Elephant trunk, doh! Got an Ice Cream coming to have a chat to me abaht it......

 

[joker]

80% not bad

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

What a bunch of toby's
regards
DR

 

[Thunder Bolt]

What a bunch of toby's
regards
DR

I'm surprised you lower yourself to visit here and read it.
regards
TB

 

[fleet]

13 I thought Dead was Brown Bread not crust of bread and I thought jam jar was car not la di da!

 

[The Andy Naylor Fan Club]

14. Got la-di-da wrong.

My stepfather would disown me.

He'll be turning in his grave. Gawd bless im.

 

[METALMICKY]

100% but more luck than judgement on two of them.

My personal favorites are " its a bit taters out there " and as Danny and Tamar often say " don't get all Lemon on me"

 

[Triggaaar]

13 I thought Dead was Brown Bread not crust of bread

It is? Crust of bread is head.

and I thought jam jar was car not la di da!

It is, la di da is cigar.

Only got 12 though

 

[atfc village]

14 ,I'm off down The Rub for some Doddie [Weirs] and a couple of Carl [Corts].

 

[Bombadier Botty]

Going for a 'J Carrol' is still in popular usage in our office.

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

What a bunch of toby's
regards
DR

Toby Jugs

 

[theboybilly]

14/15

 

[Shy Talk]

Only 80%! Disgraceful for someone born within the sound of Bow bells! I have lived in Brighton for sixty years though.

 

[WATFORD zero]

13/15 That pretend jock Rod Stewart would have got 15/15 cause he was born within the sound of the Bow Bells

 

[McTavish]

Got Sexton Blake wrong, watching an episode of Minder the other day arfur called a watch a kettle, any idea where that's from?

Kettle on the hob = fob [watch]

 

[John Bumlick]

Got Sexton Blake wrong, watching an episode of Minder the other day arfur called a watch a kettle, any idea where that's from?

Kettle and hob - fob (as in fob watch)

 

[John Bumlick]

Kettle on the hob = fob [watch]

Yeah, that's a bit freaky....

 

[Puppet Master]

Nobody uses Crust of Bread, Shirley. Brown bread for me. BBC load of J.Arthurs.

Yeah that one was bollocks. Nobody says that.

14/15

 

[Peter Grummit]

14/15 me ole' china

Scapa Flow did for me

PG

 

[Puppet Master]

Kettle on the hob = fob [watch]

From www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk :

When someone was short of cash they would pawn their watch but keep the chain to wear*on their waist coat or they may not be able to afford a watch and so wear only a chain. This led to a common put down, ''what have you got on the end of that chain, a kettle?'' Thus infering that you were clearly too poor to afford a watch! The kettle reference coming from the way kettles were hung over an open fire from a chain.


My dad is 76 and an east ender, I've heard him mention something along these lines too.