these and those n.
1. a suit of clothes.
Criminal Sl. (rev. edn). | ||
Amer. Thes. Sl. (2nd edn). | ||
Dict. of Rhy. Sl. | ||
Dict. of Cockney Rhy. Sl. | ||
Cockney Dialect and Sl. 106: these an’ those ‘clothes.’. | ||
Bible in Cockney 13: So they found some fig leaves and made some these-and-those out of them. |
2. toes.
Und. Speaks. | ||
AS XIX:3. | ‘“Aus.” Rhyming Argot’ in||
Amer. Thes. Sl. (2nd edn). | ||
Dict. of Rhy. Sl. | ||
Crime in S. Afr. 106: His ‘these and those’ [are] his toes. | ||
Up the Frog. | ||
Pete’s Aussie Sl. Home Page 🌐 these and those: toes. |
3. the nose.
Dict. of Rhy. Sl. |