Do you use it?
I didn't think that I did, but I often refer to the tomato sauce as 'dead horse'. Last night DH told me he was going to tuck some information into his 'sky rocket'.
Aussie, much? So, what rhyming slang do you use?
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Do you use it?
I didn't think that I did, but I often refer to the tomato sauce as 'dead horse'. Last night DH told me he was going to tuck some information into his 'sky rocket'.
Aussie, much? So, what rhyming slang do you use?
DH is from London so uses alot of the ****ney slang - eg - boat race = face, horse & cart = fart, apples and pears = stairs, can't think of any more.....
Ah... hit the frog and toad.
yep.
dog n bone - phone
i have a whole book on it some place...
mad as a cut snake gets used alot 'round here.
What about to have a Captain Cook (look)?
The only other one I know is "trouble and strife" = wife.
Dh has a whole book on it too. Another one is 'having a Barry Crocker' - having a shocker.
DH uses it all the time -
Dead Horse - sauce
Sgt Pepper - pepper
Harold Holt - salt
Wet as a shag on a rock
Pearl blister - sister.
That's the only one I know ^^; beside the frog and toad
OUr footy coach last year always used to say 'cheese and kisses' when talking about his fiance. I found a list of common slang if anyone is interested.
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- bag of fruit – "suit", as in suit and tie
- barry - a "shocker", a poor performance, from the Australian crooner and actor Barry Crocker.
- billy lids - "kids". Also tin lids or, more rarely, saucepan lids. Tin Lids was used by Jimmy Barnes' four children as their recording name.
- Blundstone (boot) - "ute", utility vehicle, a tradesman's vehicle, from a popular brand of workman's boots.
- boat race - the "face".
- bread crumb - a "bum", a derelict
- Bugs Bunny - "money"
- Burke and Wills - "dills", from the Australian explorers Burke and Wills who died in the Outback, as in "Don't be a Burke." This is a backformation into rhyming slang, as "Don't be a Burke" should really be "Don't be a berk", a borrowing of British rhyming slang berk.
- butcher's (hook) - "crook", ill, unwell; also, a "look".
- captain - a "look" or to "look", from Captain James Cook, as in "Having a good Captain's, are ya?"
- Charley Wheeler - "sheila", Australian slang for a woman. After the famous Australian painter w:Charles Wheeler.
- cheese and kisses - "missus", wife
- china plate - "mate", friend, compatriot
- 'comic cuts or comics - the "guts"; no longer in common use.
- Dad n Dave - shave. From the famous comic characters created by Steele Rudd.
- Dapto dog - a "wog", an Australian of Mediterranean or eastern European descent.
- Darby and Joan - "all alone"
- dead horse or race horse – "tomato sauce"
- dig in the grave – shave
- dog and bone - "telephone".
- dog's eye - a "pie", as in "I'll 'ave a dog's eye 'n' dead 'orse."
- dog's eye with dead horse - a meat pie with tomato sauce
- dropkick (and punt) – a stupid person, (originally a despicable person, a "****"). Referring to two types of kick used in various codes of football.
- Eau-de-Cologne - "phone" - after a deoderant that was popular in the 60s and 70s, often shortened to 'oadie'.
- Edgar Britt - a "****", after the name of a famous Australian jockey.
- Fiddly-did - "quid" - after a one pound note. Not used since decimal currency introduced in 1966
- frog and toad - "road", usually in the phrase "hit the frog 'n 'toad" (that is depart)
- Gary Ablett - "tablet" - after the dead 17yo girl who ended up in Gary Ablett's bed.
- ginger (ale) - "tail", as in "Get off me ginger!" (stop following me), or "a swift kick up the ginger".
- gingerbeer – "engineer"
- goanna - a "piano" (pianner).
- good cheer - "beer"
- Gregory Peck - "a Cheque"
- half-back flanker - "****er", a position in Australian rules football
- hammer (and tack) - "back"
- Harold Holt or Harry Holt - salt (no longer commonly used but is still understood by most Australians); to disappear, to bolt, to depart quickly (as in to do a/the Harold (Holt)); referring to the Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt who disappeared while swimming at a beach in 1967
- hi diddle diddle - "middle", particularly in Australian rules football
- horse's hoof - a "****", a homosexual
- hugs 'n' kisses - "missus"
- Jack - to "jack" someone, to take the last of everything, over everyone. To "jack" someone is not a nice or considerate thing to do, "jacks" take great pleasure is "jacking".
- jack - VD, from "Jack (and the box)", for "pox".
- Jack the dancer – cancer, "the big 'C'"
- James Hird - "turd"
- Jimmy Britts - the "****s", either diarrhoea or annoyance.
- Joe Blake - a "snake"
- Johnny Raper - "paper", a newspaper, from the Australian rugby league footballer Johnny Raper.
- Knees - "please"
- Kyber Pass - "arse". often abbrev. such as "he needs a damn good kick up the Khyber"
- Les Kiss - "****", from former 1980s Australian rugby league international Les Kiss, as in "I'm going for a Les Kiss."
- loaf of bread - "head"
- meat pie - a "try", a score in Rugby football
- Morton Bay fig - a "wig"
- Noah's (Ark) - a "shark"
- Onkaparinga - "finger", after place in South Australia and blanket manufacturer
- optic, optic nerve - a "perve", leering look, as in "Eh, china, have an optic at that sheila!"
- Oxford scholar - a "dollar"
- Pat (Malone) - "on one's own", as in "left him on his Pat Malone".
- polly waffle - brothel. From the proprietary name of a chocolate bar.
- pork pie, porky pie or porkies - "lie", typically a white lie, as in "When I looked into it I realised the whole story was a porky pie". Originally British.
- red hots - the "trots", that is, trotting horse races or Diarrhea.
- Reg Grundy's - "undies", underpants, from Reg Grundy, well known Australian television producer, sometimes also "Reginalds".
- rock and roll - the "dole", unemployment benefits, social security payments, as in "He won't work in an iron lung as long as he can get on the rock 'n' roll."
- Ronny Coote - having a "root".
- rubbity or rubbity-dub - a "pub"
- sausage roll – "goal", as in scoring point(s) for the team.
- scotch tape - to "rape", generally used in shortened form "scotch"
- septic (or seppo) – "American", short for septic tank, which rhymes with Yank.
- sky rocket – "pocket"
- snake's – "****", from snake's hiss, as in "I'm busting for a snake's."
- steak and kidney - "Sydney".
- Spanish Dancer - Cancer.
- sway and swerve - perv (see above)
- swing and a miss - "****", from American baseball terminology, as in "Time for a swing and a miss."
- tea leaf - "thief".
- Tin Tank - "Bank".
- trouble and strife – "wife", as in "I can't come out I gotta stay home with the trouble and strife."
- Wallaby Ted - 'rooted' (Roo-Ted), tired from strenuous activity
- Wally Grout - "shout", to buy a round of drinks, from the Australian cricketer by that name, as in "It’s your Wally". Depending on context, it could also mean "stout" or "snout".
- Warwick Farm - "arm", from the racecourse in Sydney, Australia, as in "He grabbed her by the Warwick Farms".
- Westpac banker - "****er"
- Uncle Merv - to "perv"
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