Have you ever been lost for words in the East End markets? Ever got your Gertie Gitanas (bananas) confused with your corns and bunions (onions) and it's all gone a bit Pete Tong (wrong)? Cockney Rhyming Slang is a quick, easy-to-use guide to some of the most frequently used, up-to-date as well as old-fashioned phrases.
Including:
• 'apples and pears' - stairs
• 'Barnet Fair' - hair
• 'sausage and mash' - crash
• 'bubble bath' - laugh
• 'Britney Spears' - beers
• 'has beens' - greens
• 'dig a grave' - shave
An entertaining collection that explains the ever-evolving dialect of London's East End, with Cockney Rhyming Slang you'll be conversing with the street traders of the East End with no Barney Rubble (trouble).
- ISBN10 1843173743
- ISBN13 9781843173748
- Publish Date 1 October 2009
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 May 2017
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Michael O'Mara Books Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 96
- Language English