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[UK] M. Coles Bible in Cockney 20: Noah built a little altar (a sort of Cain-and-Abel where you can offer sacrifices) to the Lord.
at Cain and Abel, n.
[UK] M. Coles Bible in Cockney 12: He then breathed into the fireman’s hose of this geezer, and would you Adam and Eve it, the dirty geezer started to live.
at Adam (and Eve), v.
[UK] M. Coles Bible in Cockney 83: Now time was getting on, and a little alligator his disciples came up to him.
at alligator, adv.
[UK] M. Coles Bible in Cockney 32: He [...] put a lovely gold chain round ’is bushel.
at bushel (and peck), n.
[UK] M. Coles Bible in Cockney 64: Some bloke is shouting, making all kinds of girls-and-boys.
at girls and boys, n.
[UK] M. Coles Bible in Cockney 35: They’re gonna have Lilley with me. Kill a nice fat animal and cook it.
at Lilley (and Skinner), n.
[UK] M. Coles Bible in Cockney 29: You’re gonna get your old job back, and serve the Pharoah rise-and-shine.
at rise and shine, n.
[UK] M. Coles Bible in Cockney 20: Noah [...] ’ad a good butcher’s around, and ’e could see that the safe was getting dry.
at safe (and sound), n.
[UK] M. Coles Bible in Cockney 34: He ran to ’is room and had a good ol’ snoop. [Ibid.] 37: They continued to ’ave a good ol’ snoop-and-pry.
at snoop (and pry), n.
[UK] M. Coles Bible in Cockney 25: Jacob gave a beautiful, decorated weasel to Joseph.
at weasel (and stoat), n.
[UK] M. Coles Bible in Cockney 67: There was this geezer who had leprosy (some dodgy skin disease), and he came to Jesus, fell on his biscuits and said, ‘If you want to, please make me clean’.
at biscuits and cheese, n.
[UK] M. Coles Bible in Cockney 39: Goliath then opened ’is huge north and shouted.
at north (and south), n.
[UK] M. Coles Bible in Cockney 67: But, the geezer was so happy, he started to tell people everywhere what had happened. In fact, he rabbit and porked about it so much, that Jesus couldn’t go into town publicly.
at rabbit (and pork), v.
[UK] M. Coles Bible in Cockney 66: All sorts of people were brought to Jesus – the Tom-and-Dick, and those who had demons in them.
at tom and dick, n.
[UK] M. Coles Bible in Cockney 13: So they found some fig leaves and made some these-and-those out of them.
at these and those, n.
[UK] M. Coles Bible in Cockney 81: Don’t take any Uncle Fred [...] and no bees in your pocket.
at bees (and honey), n.
[UK] M. Coles Bible in Cockney 87: Some lady, whose little ribbon had an evil spirit in her.
at ribbon (and curl), n.
[UK] M. Coles Bible in Cockney 74: Look, your finger, skin-and-blisters and brothers are outside.
at skin-and-blister, n.
[UK] M. Coles Bible in Cockney 40: David found some army geezer who was in charge of all the food, and ’e left the Uncle Fred, grain and cough-and-sneeze with ’im.
at cough and sneeze, n.
[UK] M. Coles Bible in Cockney 62: There’s no time for a feather whilst reading it.
at feather (and flip), n.
[UK] M. Coles Bible in Cockney 12: Right in the middle of this garden was the tree that gives fork.
at fork and knife, n.
[UK] M. Coles Bible in Cockney 16: Now, sit dahn in your ol’ here-and-there, and enjoy the story.
at here and there, n.
[UK] M. Coles Bible in Cockney 10: Don’t get confused with ‘read and write’ which means ‘fight’.
at read and write, n.
[UK] M. Coles Bible in Cockney 36: But now ’e was speaking from ’is stop-and-start.
at stop and start, n.
[UK] M. Coles Bible in Cockney 68: They lowered the paralysed geezer dahn lying on his dog-and-cat.
at dog and cat, n.
[UK] M. Coles Bible in Cockney 27: As the brothers were ’aving their Judy and Punch, they saw some Ishmalite traders pass by.
at judy and punch, n.
[UK] M. Coles Bible in Cockney 21: There is always gonna be lemon for people to plant their crops.
at lemon (and lime), n.
[UK] M. Coles Bible in Cockney 39: ‘Find some fella to read with me.’ [...] Who on earth could they find to read-and-write with this bloomin’ massive geezer?
at read and write, v.
[UK] M. Coles Bible in Cockney 12: She was made from a stick-and-stone taken from me, and from my flesh.
at sticks and stones, n.2
[UK] M. Coles Bible in Cockney 24: There will be more of them than there are bloomin’ stars in the apple. [Ibid.] 52: They all had their mince pies on the apple pie as ’e went up to heaven.
at apple pie, n.1
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