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The meaning of "trouble and strife"
"
Trouble and strife
"
Meaning:
Cockney rhyming slang for wife.
Example:
Twenty years we've been married now, the trouble and strife and myself.
Where did it originate?:
Britain
.
Where is it used?:
Mostly Britain.
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