January 2010
December 2009
Cockney Rhyming Slang →
A dialect found mostly in East London, where people obviously have more time to say what they want to say, and are more paranoid about being overheard. The principle is to decide what it is you want to say, and then find words which bear no real relation to what you’re going to say, but which rhyme loosely with your phrase.
Sometimes the connection is totally obscure. For example,...