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.

Yes because my Mum was a Londoner.

Having a giraffe, cream crackered, tea leaf, on the dog, scotch mist, cup of Rosie are used, probably others but they spring to mind.

Likewise, 'Jack Jones' for 'own'. I don't know if it refers to the Los Angeles crooner or a later namesake.

I never get this ones: what's the point in having rhyming slang and then using something that doesn't really rhyme? There must be thousands of other words or names out there that properly rhyme with 'own', without the awkwardly unnecessary 's' sound on the end.

I sometimes use 'pen': pen and ink = stink. I'm aware this might be controversial(!), but I don't see the point in saying the whole phrase, especially when it just takes you longer; and it just sounds a bit faux and try-hard - so you'd just 'go for a Ruby' not 'go for a Ruby Murray'.

I'm also a bit confused by 'mince', though - is it eye(s) (as in mince pie(s)) or fart (as in mince tart)? I've heard it used for both!

Talking of more recent CRS, I love the development that led to £15 eventually being referred to as a 'commodore': 'once, twice, three times a lady', with a 'lady' being a fiver ('Lady Godiva')!

Also, I didn't realise that 'Aris' was a double one until quite recently. I always assumed it was just a variant pronunciation of arse, but no: 'Aris' as in 'Aristotle' = bottle; then 'bottle and glass' = arse!

Thinking about it, 'Barnet (fair)' for hair is one I'd instinctively use. As in the joke "Which was Amy Winehouse's favourite tube station? High Barnet!"

Also, situated just under your barnet, 'bonce' is an immensely satisfying word - as in a kind of marble, which (mainly) makes sense, going on the similarity in shapes!

Always use porky and never put two and two together and realised it's rhyming slang 😅. Always wondered how they knew pigs were deceitful little things 😂

Always kept ‘whistle’ (and flute/suit) for some reason.

Yep I say porkies and aris.

Also have a tendency to say “pick a window you’re leaving”

I use Jo maxi and Not the Mae West a lot. Also hear these used regularly, Daniel Day (Lewis) the Luas (light rail system in Dublin) pronounced exactly the same as Lewis, cream crackered, Lee Marvin (starving), having a giraffe, Adam and Eve it (believe it) and brown bread (dead). Some directly from Cockney rhyming slang and some pure Dublin! Before I moved to Dublin I wouldn't have heard rhyming slang used at all as it seems to be peculiar to Dublin! Or at least it wasn't used in the other Irish counties I've lived in.

Quite a few of the above, just the standard ones:
Cream crackered, Pete tong, Hank Marvin.

Definitely Berkeley Hunt 😁. Or James Blunt.
Get the Britney Spears in 🍻.

Definitely Berkeley

Rhyming slang is not peculiar to Dublin. It is definitely a London thing that has spread a bit. And it's fine to make up new ones, it's living slang