Ryming Slang
| Slang | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Adam and Eve | believe |
| Almond rocks | socks |
| Apple fritter | bitter (beer) |
| Apple peeling | feeling |
| Apple tart | heart |
| Apples and pears | stairs |
| Aunty Lou | flu |
| Barnet Fair | hair |
| Beechams pill | hill |
| Bees ‘n’ honey | money |
| Bernard Miles | piles (haemorrhoids) |
| Boat race | face |
| Bo-peep | sleep |
| Bottle and glass | arse |
| Bow & arrow | barrow |
| Box of toys | noise |
| Brown bread | dead |
| Bubble and squeak | speak |
| Bunny | talk (from rabbit and pork) |
| Burnt cinder | window |
| Butcher’ s hook | look |
| Cain & Able | table |
| Chalk Farm | arm |
| Cherry-og | dog |
| China plate | mate (friend) |
| Coach ‘n’ badge | cadge (get money off) |
| Cock ‘n’ hen | ten or £10 |
| Currant bun | sun |
| Derby Kelly | belly |
| Dicky Dirt | shirt |
| Dig in the grave | shave |
| Dr. Crippen | dripping |
| Dog and bone | telephone |
| Donald Duck | luck |
| Duke of Kent | rent |
| Friar Tuck | luck |
| Frog and toad | road |
| George Raft | daft (crazy) |
| Ginger beer | queer |
| Gold watch | scotch |
| Ham and eggs | legs |
| Hampstead Heath | teeth |
| Harry Lime | time |
| Heap of coke | bloke |
| Hen ‘n’ fox | box |
| Holy friar | liar |
| Holy ghost | toas |
| House to let | bet |
| Jack ‘n’ Jill | till |
| Jam jar | car |
| Jam tart | heart |
| Jeremiah | fire |
| Jim Skinner | dinner |
| Joanna | piano |
| Joe Blake | steak |
| Kate Karney | army |
| Lemon squash | wash |
| Linen draper | paper |
| Loaf of bread | head |
| Max Miller | pillar |
| Mince pies | eyes |
| Mother Hubbard | cupboard |
| Mutt and Jeff | deaf |
| Peckham Rye | tie |
| Pig’s ear | beer |
| Plates of meat | feet |
| Pork pie | lie |
| Pot ‘n’ pan | old man |
| Rabbit ‘n’ pork | talk |
| Reads and writes | fights |
| Reels of cotton | rotten |
| Rocking horse | sauce |
| Rory O’Moore | floor |
| Rosie Lee | tea |
| Salmon and trout | gout |
| Saucepan lid | kid (child) |
| Sexton Blake | cake |
| Joe Blake | steak |
| Six to four | whore |
| Skin ‘n’ blister | sister |
| Sky rocket | |
| Taters in the mould | cold |
| Tea leaf | thief |
| Tit for tat | hat |
| Tom and Dick | sick |
| Trouble and strife | wife |