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Old 04-01-2017, 23:42
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Never heard Jackson, but a five pound note was often called a Jack's in the pubs I used in Rotherhithe, it came from, (and don't ask me how), Jack's alive, five.
Another term for a fiver was a glove, from five fingers I guess.

Going off thread a bit, in the mid eighties in rural towns in the South-East of the U.S., bars would often have "Drinking with Lincoln" nights, where for $5 you could drink cheaper beers and non branded liquor all night.
The 5 dollar bill bears the face of Abraham Lincoln.
Jackson five, innit. I used to call them ladies, as in Lady Godiva. Also syrup or Irish for a wig.
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Old 04-01-2017, 23:52
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I've heard of the Berkeley Hunt, but didn't know that Charlie (cocaine?) was rhyming slang, and haven't a clue what you mean by 'bottle'.
Bottle and glass = arse
So, you can imagine what happens when your 'bottle' goes.
Interestingly there is a further rhyme 'Aristotle' which the rhyming slang for 'bottle' which is shortened to 'arris.
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Old 04-01-2017, 23:54
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I've heard of the Berkeley Hunt, but didn't know that Charlie (cocaine?) was rhyming slang, and haven't a clue what you mean by 'bottle'.
aris, aristotle, bottle, bottle and glass = arse

losing your bottle/bottling it is shitting yourself, you're a bottle
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Old 04-01-2017, 23:58
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Bottle and glass = arse
So, you can imagine what happens when your 'bottle' goes.
Interestingly there is a further rhyme 'Aristotle' which the rhyming slang for 'bottle' which is shortened to 'arris.
what he said

the finest line Arfur Daley ever said was when Terry was supposed to be trainng for a fight and Arfur turned up at his flat and Terry had a woman there

Arfur "you are supposed to be taking it easy and I come round here and there's some bird flaunting her aris round the gaff"
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And 'Charlie'?
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Old Yesterday, 00:12
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what he said

the finest line Arfur Daley ever said was when Terry was supposed to be trainng for a fight and Arfur turned up at his flat and Terry had a woman there

Arfur "you are supposed to be taking it easy and I come round here and there's some bird flaunting her aris round the gaff"
Do you remember Joe Pasquale in the Jungle ?

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Old Yesterday, 00:13
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Charlie Hunt
"My bottle went and I felt a right charlie"
Funny to hear things like this on mainstream telly.
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Old Yesterday, 00:19
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Charlie Hunt
"My bottle went and I felt a right charlie"
Funny to hear things like this on mainstream telly.
Ah.. I thought you were talking about coke. Why do they call that Charlie?

My mother would often call me and my brothers Berks when we were little. She had no idea.
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Old Yesterday, 00:19
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I guess the expression most used without knowing it is cockney slang is 'a load of' cobblers'
Yeaah, that's the best one, and should be used more often

Me old dutch is cockers innit.
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Old Yesterday, 00:24
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Yeaah, that's the best one, and should be used more often

Me old dutch is cockers innit.
not rhyming slang but my favourite cockney phrase as used by my nan and my Dad was when as a kid you came in dirty and they'd say "look at you, you are as black as Newgates knocker
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Old Yesterday, 00:29
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To me when growing up bottle of Bass was arse. Jammer (jam jar) for car. Haven't a Danny (La Rue) = Haven't a clue.
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Old Yesterday, 00:47
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not rhyming slang but my favourite cockney phrase as used by my nan and my Dad was when as a kid you came in dirty and they'd say "look at you, you are as black as Newgates knocker
Me and my pals had a spate of talking cockney when we were teens, and it was great fun The posh are too high and mighty to even try it. Now and again it creeps into some of what I say, and get blank stares. lol The Newgate knocker rings a bell, but too long ago now. I got posh see! Ma Brown(there was always a ma Brown in them days) on the frog and toad! lol

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Old Yesterday, 00:56
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Sexton Blake for the benefit of artists

Charlie...we used to say Charlie's dying, or dead, depending if it was.

Charlie was very fatal I tell ya!
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Sexton Blake for the benefit of artists

Charlie...we used to say Charlie's dying, or dead, depending if it was.

Charlie was very fatal I tell ya!
You've lost me. I tried Googling, still haven't a clue.
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Old Yesterday, 01:10
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I grew up in London but I never use Cockney rhyming slang. Nobody would know what I was talking about and I guess it would sound ridiculous for a postgrad student to use it
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Old Yesterday, 01:15
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You've lost me. I tried Googling, still haven't a clue.
You mean re Charlie? Can't remember why Charlie, but if he was dying, it meant that your slip was showing under your dress, or skirt. If Charlie was dead, the slip had sunk so much down that the wearer had to know and do something about it.

Lo betide your slip showing! lol In the bad days of one's youth. But seriously everyone said that phrase then, and more people went out than they do now. All those showing slips wasn't a pretty sight
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Old Yesterday, 01:21
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I grew up in London but I never use Cockney rhyming slang. Nobody would know what I was talking about and I guess it would sound ridiculous for a postgrad student to use it
Don't see why not, as London's Cockneys are famous. I used to live in London, and actually met some Cockneys, and loved how they spoke. A few words wouldn't go amiss here and there, so give it a try.
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Old Yesterday, 01:25
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You mean re Charlie? Can't remember why Charlie, but if he was dying, it meant that your slip was showing under your dress, or skirt. If Charlie was dead, the slip had sunk so much down that the wearer had to know and do something about it.

Lo betide your slip showing! lol In the bad days of one's youth. But seriously everyone said that phrase then, and more people went out than they do now. All those showing slips wasn't a pretty sight
That's quite a picture you've painted. Slips! ..

I thought you were talking about cocaine! That's what I was asking, though I see I wasn't at all clear.
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Old Yesterday, 02:42
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I love when people from the East part of London speak in Rhyming slang. And i sometimes say few phrases like

This is all gone Pete Tong or You having a bubble

Do you sometimes say a few Rhyming slang phrases when you talk to people
I used to know a true Cockney at University, so occasionally a few expressions slip in, but I wouldn't use it normally. A fair few people around here don't even have a good grasp of standard English, let alone Cockney.
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Old Yesterday, 09:11
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Jackson five, innit. I used to call them ladies, as in Lady Godiva. Also syrup or Irish for a wig.
Jackson Five makes sense Paulie, never thought of that, I don't recall hearing just 'Ladies", but on rare occasions I heard them referred to as 'Lady Godivas.'
Irish, (jig), seems better to me than the more often used 'Syrup' (of figs.)

not rhyming slang but my favourite cockney phrase as used by my nan and my Dad was when as a kid you came in dirty and they'd say "look at you, you are as black as Newgates knocker
My mum and dad used that too.

To me when growing up bottle of Bass was arse. Jammer (jam jar) for car. Haven't a Danny (La Rue) = Haven't a clue.
Don't see that one Lennox, it means that Bass would have been mispronounced as Barse, unless people pronounced arse the American way, ass.
Never heard jammer, but jam jar was common parlance for car.
Danny for clue sounds as if a pseudo cockney was trying to persuade people that he was the real deal, by inventing his own rhyming slang word, just as the later Scooby, for Scooby-Doo, (clue.)

You've lost me. I tried Googling, still haven't a clue.
Sexton Blake was a fictional detective who appeared in many comic strips in the 30s and 40s,
Among my circle of friends in S.E. London, Sexton Blake was used for steak, e.g., I had a blinding bit of Sexton Blake in that cafe in New Cross.

You mean re Charlie? Can't remember why Charlie, but if he was dying, it meant that your slip was showing under your dress, or skirt. If Charlie was dead, the slip had sunk so much down that the wearer had to know and do something about it.

Lo betide your slip showing! lol In the bad days of one's youth. But seriously everyone said that phrase then, and more people went out than they do now. All those showing slips wasn't a pretty sight
Charlie's dead allegedly comes from the fact? that following Charles 1st. beheading in 1649, women dipped their petticoats in his blood.
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You mean re Charlie? Can't remember why Charlie, but if he was dying, it meant that your slip was showing under your dress, or skirt. If Charlie was dead, the slip had sunk so much down that the wearer had to know and do something about it.

Lo betide your slip showing! lol In the bad days of one's youth. But seriously everyone said that phrase then, and more people went out than they do now. All those showing slips wasn't a pretty sight
Oop north if a girl's slip was showing we'd shout 'it's snowing' ...............

that doesn't make much sense either ............apart from both being white
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Old Yesterday, 09:31
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I've lived in east London for nearly 15 years and on a day to day basis I never hear anyone using Cockney rhyming slang.

The particular area I live in has been going through a lot of gentrification and it is rare to hear any actual local accents.
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Old Yesterday, 10:02
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No, because i'm not from London and i don't want to talk like an idiot.
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Old Yesterday, 10:14
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No, because i'm not from London and i don't want to talk like an idiot.
I'm not from London either but local idioms or terms of reference often creep into everyday language, regardless of location. I don't use many rhyming slang words but those I do use, I use fairly frequently.
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