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.

So you mean where does the phrase blues and twos come form? Lights and sirens, that's not rhyming slanf

Oh very lahdidah ( cockney slang for star )

Yes, most of the aforementioned. I use all sorts of regional phrases having lived all over the UK (Inc London) and with immediate family being from the far north and far south west. I've picked up things from housemates too. I love it, I find languages and idioms/metaphors fascinating.

We use it a lot, at home, as do my close friends, intermingled with Jewish slang words. We were all brought up with it and it was used a lot more in my parents generation.

Bins

Pony
Hank
Aris
Barnet
Syrup

Probably more

Scarpered

More properly, Scapa’d

Scapa Flow, go

Half inch, use that one all the time

Can't think of any others.

Porkies
Brassic
Giraffe
Apple and Pears

Jeremy Hunt....

My mum, who is from Yorkshire, uses Apples and Pears
Pen and Ink
Plates
Half inch
Brassic

I live in E London and don’t really use any!

My dad uses it more than plain English. He might say ‘where’s the saucepan? Up the apples? can’t take a butchers as I’ve done my Gregory in’

or

’I‘m not spending a monkey on some shisters tot’

or

‘lovely bit of Joe right up your mother’s alley’

Cream crackered
Porkie pies
Brassic
Load of cobblers

My dad used to say ‘go up the apples and pears’ when it was time for bed when we were little.

Yep, half inch - pinch.

’I’m just gonna half inch this pen.”

@Saturn88 i was going to say the same as pp - Blues & Twos isn’t rhyming slang 😊

I didn’t know brassic was though - we always use that! Had no idea what it meant 😄

I agree with PP lots of Jewish words mixed in.

’some smuck spilt a pint on Micky’s Joanna’

That kind of thing.

I probably use more than I realise in day to day talk!

ha!

Quite a bit of borrowed Polari mixed in with the Jewish words and slang too.

Another one with a heady mix of Polari, Yiddish and rhyming slang.

Haven't got a scooby
Brassic
All gone a bit pete tong
Jack Jones
Porkies

I'm from up north though!

@SomethingNastyInTheBallPool sounds like we are of similar vintage from the same area. The rhyme is never finished, never apples and pears just apples.

Quite possibly,
b @GoldCherub !

How has no-one mentioned Michael Bliss ?

I was born abroad, but went to British schools and then lived in East London for 18yrs. Until reading this post, I wrongly thought it was only Cockneys that had rhyming slang! Never realised this was a thing in other parts of the country! To my knowledge, I don't use any rhyming slang at all.

Barnet, syrup, crackered, boat, dog