cash and carry, v. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

cash and carry v.

[rhy. sl.; but note that the first OED cit. of cash and carry in purchasing sense is 1917]

to marry; thus (cash and) carried, married.

1882		Biography of Cheap Heiress Hunters in Ware (1909) 64/2: Well, these Tommy Rotters kid the poor judy they’re very rich, and if they’re now and never they get carefully carried (married) to her.
1909		J. Ware Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era 64/2: Carried (Rhyming) Married: e.g., ‘He was carried yesterday, poor bloke.’.
1969		S.T. Kendall Up the Frog 27: Cash ’n’ carried – Married.
1972		Dodson & Saczek Dict. of Cockney Rhy. Sl.
2002		D. Shaw ‘Dead Beard’ at www.asstr.org 🌐 That’s odd, what with you being cash and carried to the geezer.
2003		B. Dark Dirty Cockney Rhy. Sl. 34: Poor sod got cash and carried to a carving knife with a face like a totem pole.