Cockney rhyming slang

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• They were shouting and screaming at each other - a real bull and cow.

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• He says he has invented a perpetual motion machine, which is clearly a load of cobblers.

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• Time for bed Jimmy - get yourself up the apples and pears.

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• I'm not sure about that new hairdresser - he cut my barnet much too short.

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• There were five of us at home - three brothers and two blood blisters.

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• Not good timing - we were sitting at the table when Granny said grace and he let go a raspberry.

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• Stupid am I! Look into my boat and say that again!

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• He slipped on those wet leaves by the gate. Legs in the air and landed on his bottle.

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• Two bottles of wine at home and then four pints in the pub - he was totally Brahms by ten-o-clock.

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• I'm telling you brass tacks mate. Florida is bigger than England.

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• The girls got into trouble but her mother and I still love them - they are our bricks and mortars after all.

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• Quite appropriate that James lives with Julian in Brighton - they are Brighton Pier after all.

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• That bird just landed on the live power cable. He's brown bread for sure.

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• Get me twenty cigarettes while you are out would you? - and some tobacco for my cherry ripe.

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• We've been friends since school, haven't we my old china?

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• That's an hour on the exercise bike. I can't do any more - I'm crackered.

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• It's rained every day for ages. I can't remember the last time I saw the currant bun.

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• I can't get them on. Either my feet have got bigger or these daisies have shrunk.

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• Jane's wedding today. I'll need a newly pressed dickie dirt for that.

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• I need to talk to Jackie. Get her on the dog and bone for me would you?

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• 1. Prince Charles has a fine pair of donkeys. 2. This is the first school reunion we've had since 1982. I haven't seen some of these people in donkey's years.

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• He's been in the bar since we opened six hours ago. It's fair to assume that he's totally elephants by now.

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• Hurry up and move the car - I can see a traffic warden coming just down the frog and toad.

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• That handstand on the window ledge. You could say he was brave or you could say he was George Raft.

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• Julian is ginger - and I don't mean that he's got red hair.

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• It's freezing out there. Better get a scarf round your Gregory if you're going out.

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• It's hopeless - whenever I try to start a DIY job I find that someone has half-inched some of my tools.

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• Now madam, have a Captain Cook at these men and point out the one who attacked you.

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• 1. There was only one room left in the hotel when we arrived, so we got Hobson's choice. 2. I've had a sore throat for a couple of days - now I'm beginning to lose my hobsons.

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• I thought I could make mayonnaise with butter. When I tried it all went Pete Tong.

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• Julie wants me to go with her to the ballroom for a night of Jack Palancing.

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• Check my new Audi. Its the best jam jar I've ever owned.

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• Now kids, this is going to be a long car trip and we don't want to be stopping every five minutes. Just go and have a Jimmy before we set off.

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• That was really insulting to my mother. When he bends over he's going to get a good kick up the khyber.

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• Betting your wages on the toss of a coin isn't the best way to get out of debt - use your loaf mate.

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• The hamster escaped and the cat got it - it's Lord Fred for sure.

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• If that traffic warden comes back let me know - keep your minces open will you?

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• You have to shout - he's almost completely mutton.

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• This year will be our silver wedding, the old dutch and me.

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• We've been best pals since schooldays. He's my best china plate.

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• No, it's true! I heard it straight from her own north and south.

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• The others have all gone out - I'm on my tod.

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• That drain cover should be an airtight seal but it's broken. There's a real pen and ink in here.

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• I knew I shouldn't have agreed to help with the Christmas post. Ten miles up and down stairs today - my plates are killing me.

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• You can't trust what he tells you - half of his stories are porkies.

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• Whoa, it's the coldest day of the winter so far - really taters.

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• He just goes on and on about his hobbies - rabbit, rabbit, rabbit!

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• Put the kettle on would you? I'd love a nice cup of rosie lea.

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• Every Friday night after work, the lads all pile into the Star of India for a ruby.

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• The police are on there way. With your record they are bound to think the fight was your fault - you'd better scarper before they get here.

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• That picture was supposed to be by Monet but there was a mobile phone in the background - I knew right away it was a sexton.

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• That thatch on Donald Trump's head - it has to be a syrup.

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• There's a triple rainbow over there. If you don't believe me take a butchers yourself.

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• Just be careful to keep your purse safe when you go down to the market - there are plenty of tea leaves ready to steal it.

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• It looks like rain - I think I'll need a coat and my titfer.

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• Twenty years we've been married now, the trouble and strife and myself.

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• His clothes were awry and he'd lost one of his shoes - he was in a right two and eight.

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• Sorry, I won't be into work today. I'll feeling Uncle Dick.

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• Sending money to that Nigerian email scam. Use your loaf, mate - wasn't it obvious it was a con?

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• That important interview is coming up next week. I think I ought to get a new whistle.

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• Amazing - he hit double top six times with six darts. Would you Adam and Eve it?

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