Rhyming slang - do you routinely use any in everyday speech ?

[WildRosie]

I do but only two expressions, namely 'butcher's' (butcher's hook) = look and 'two and eight' = state. I don't think I use anything else. It's not a West Yorkshire thing AFAIK but seems to have minutely invaded my vocabulary.

I routinely use 'Barnet' to describe my hair but that's it I think.

Barnet. What's the link with hair ? Is there another word ? It's reminded me I also say 'syrup (of figs) for wig.

Barnet fair, I think.

Barnet fair = hair.

Yes I forgot about syrup too...I use it to describe a wig as well lol.

We say brassic (borassic lint - skint) regularly.

Pete tong

Yes I do unintentionally but it's all kind of stuck due to my parents/childhood... still baffles my Canadian other half on occasions!

I use 'you're havin' a giraffe' and 'cobblers!'

I don’t.
i think it’s more of an English/cockney thing and I’m in Scotland

I use “Hank Marvin” a lot.
that’s it though

Bristols (only tongue in cheek)
Butchers
On your tod
Ruby
Scooby

I use quite a few but not all the time:
Apples and pears
Joanna
Barnet
Dog and bone
Would you Adam and Eve it?
Boat race
Plates of meat

"Up the apples and pears" for stairs.

Cream crackered - knackered
Porky - lie

No. The only people I’ve ever been around who seemed to use it were old-school London market traders. I can’t even remember exactly what the terms were, but expressions for different denominations of money? A ‘Godiva’ for a fiver?

"I'm Hank"
Brassic
Have a butchers

Butchers
to rabbit

Berkshire hunt
Hampton wick (gets on my wick)

Random convo of the day. DH said a fire engine turned up at his work the other day due to the fire alarm going off for no reason.
I asked "did they turn up with their blues and twos on?" we both laughed straight away saying where did that come from!? 😂

Loads. Which probably sound ridiculous in my fairly RP pronunciation tbh.

Pony
Barnet
Apples and Pears
Dog and bone
Butchers

I am a bit of a twat though, fond of a holibobs and Crimble or two.

Can't say never, but it is a rarity. Being Welsh I have enough sayings without the rhyming slang too!

I've only spent a few days of my life in London but I don't expect that is wholly responsible for my very limited repertoire. Just natural linguistic osmosis, as it were. Not rhyming slang but I do say 'wee' for little or short. Maybe it's northern English dialect as well as Scots.

Pete Tong would have been born long after rhyming slang began to evolve so his 'entry' to the scene would have been relatively recent. Likewise, 'Jack Jones' for 'own'. I don't know if it refers to the Los Angeles crooner or a later namesake.

My dh does it all the time
syrup
jam jar
two and eight
I did have to ask him what pony was the other day!
He was born in the north of England but spent 25 years working with what he describes as ‘prop cockneys’.

*proper not prop