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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. |
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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'.
![]() 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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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'.
![]() losing your bottle/bottling it is shitting yourself, you're a bottle
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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. ![]() 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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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" Nearly got me in the Jacobs !
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And 'Charlie'?
"My bottle went and I felt a right charlie" Funny to hear things like this on mainstream telly. |
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Charlie Hunt
"My bottle went and I felt a right charlie" Funny to hear things like this on mainstream telly. My mother would often call me and my brothers Berks when we were little. She had no idea.
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I guess the expression most used without knowing it is cockney slang is 'a load of' cobblers'
![]() ![]() Me old dutch is cockers innit.
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Yeaah, that's the best one, and should be used more often
![]() ![]() Me old dutch is cockers innit. ![]()
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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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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
![]() 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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And 'Charlie'?
![]() 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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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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You've lost me. I tried Googling, still haven't a clue. 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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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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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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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 |
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Jackson five, innit. I used to call them ladies, as in Lady Godiva. Also syrup or Irish for a wig.
Irish, (jig), seems better to me than the more often used 'Syrup' (of figs.) Quote:
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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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.
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.) Quote:
You've lost me. I tried Googling, still haven't a clue.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. Quote:
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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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 doesn't make much sense either ............apart from both being white |
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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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No, because i'm not from London and i don't want to talk like an idiot.
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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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She had no idea.

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.
That's what I was asking, though I see I wasn't at all clear.