Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. dinner.

1932		N. Gubbins Sun. Express (London) in Barlthrop & Wolveridge (1980) n.p.: Arter ’avin ’is Lilley and Skinner (dinner) m’lady, ’e went down the frog and toad (road). ’E said, m’lady, that ’e wanted a mouthful of pig’s ear.
1938		L. Ortzen Down Donkey Row 165: This perishin’ ’eat put me right orf me Lilley and Skinner.
1946		St. Vincent Troubridge ‘Some Notes on Rhyming Argot’ in AS XXI:1 Feb. 46: johnny skinner. Dinner. (Origin uncertain, probably American.) Agreed. The English equivalent is Lilley and Skinner, after a ‘well-known firm of boot manufacturers with many retail shops’.
1960		J. Franklyn Dict. of Rhy. Sl.
1971		J. Jones Rhy. Cockney Sl.
1984		Partridge DSUE (8th edn) 397: from ca. 1910.
1992		R. Puxley Cockney Rabbit.
2001		M. Coles Bible in Cockney 35: They’re gonna have Lilley with me. Kill a nice fat animal and cook it.

2. a beginner.

1984

Partridge DSUE (8th edn) 685: C.20.