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Spitalfields Life 18 Nov. 🌐 ‘Flo’s line’ is nine, ‘cockle” is ten.at cock and hen, n.
Spitalfields Life 18 Nov. 🌐 ‘Flo’s line’ is nine, ‘cockle” is ten. Spitalfields Life 18 Nov. 🌐
‘Tom and Jerry’ is cherries.at tom and jerry, n.2
Spitalfields Life 18 Nov. 🌐
An Aristotle is a bottle.at aristotle, n.
Spitalfields Life 18 Nov. 🌐
‘Bottle of blue’ is two.at bottle of blue, n.
Spitalfields Life 18 Nov. 🌐
‘Boy scouts’ are sprouts.at boy scouts, n.
Spitalfields Life 18 Nov. 🌐 “Carpet” means three. That one goes back to years and years ago, when people was given a prison sentence, and if what they got was it was either three months or three years, they got a carpet in the cell and that’s what they used to say. How d’you get on? Oh, I got a carpet. Oh, fuck me, did ya?at carpet, n.2
Spitalfields Life 18 Nov. 🌐 The ecrip. Did you hear me say, how’s the ecrip? That’s “price” backwards, so that you didn’t know what I was talking about.at ecrip, n.
Spitalfields Life 18 Nov. 🌐 ‘Flo’s line’ is nine, ‘cockle’ is ten.at Flo’s line, n.
Spitalfields Life 18 Nov. 🌐 ‘Thgiet’ is ‘eight’ backwards.at theg gens, n.
Spitalfields Life 18 Nov. 🌐
Celery is ‘horn root,’ because years ago they thought that celery was an aphrodisiac. And they said it gave you the horn.at horn root (n.) under horn, n.2
Spitalfields Life 18 Nov. 🌐 And he said to me, Tom Mix, which is rhyming slang. What’s Tom Mix?at tom mix, n.
Spitalfields Life 18 Nov. 🌐
‘Navigators’ is taters.at navigator, n.
Spitalfields Life 18 Nov. 🌐 ‘Ben neves’ is ‘seven’ backwards.at nevis, n.
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‘Self starters’ is tomatoes.at self-starter, n.2
Spitalfields Life 25 Apr. 🌐 With this sign [i.e. a price tag for 2s. 8d.] Paul Gardner [...] eloquently expresses the situation that he and other small independent traders find themselves in. ‘2 & 8’ is rhyming slang for ‘a bit of a state’ .at two and eight, n.
Spitalfields Life 18 Jan. 🌐 In those days [i.e. 1960s], people didn’t go on holidays [...] they had what they called ‘beanos,’ pub and work excursions going to Margate or Southend.at beano, n.1
Spitalfields Life 12 Feb. 🌐 His brothers ran a second hand shop down the Bethnal Green Rd and a stall in Cheshire St on Sunday. They used to do house clearance, it was called totting.at tot, v.2
(con. 1950s) http://spitalfieldslife.com/ 2 Aug. 🌐 His round was Rotherhithe which meant driving through the tunnel [...] One day, we had to go back through ‘the pipe’ as they called the tunnel in Mile End [etc.].at Pipe, The, n.
(con. 1950s) http://spitalfieldslife.com/ 2 Aug. 🌐 We had to get the bus to London Bridge, take the train to East Croydon and change to another near Gatwick Airport [...] It was a schlep at seven o’clock in the morning all through the winter.at schlep, n.2
Spitalfields Life 24 Apr. 🌐 ‘Barmy Park’ in Bethnal Green (named after the asylum that once stood there).at barmy, adj.
Spitalfields Life 16 Oct. 🌐 [T]here was, until recently, a patch of these alleys in the Roman Rd area which was called by the locals ‘the bunk’ because it provided an avenue of escape from the police.at bunk, v.1
(con. 1950s) Spitalfields Life 30 May 🌐 Some of the brainier boys went to Shoreditch Central School in Hoxton. You were considered a little bit ‘like that’ if you went to Shoreditch Central, us we went to the original Blackboard Jungle, Pitfield St School.at like that, adj.
(con. 1950s) Spitalfields Life 30 May 🌐 Those years that we lived in Northport St were the years of the parties at our house, where people would come out of the pubs, carrying the booze home, having a ‘Moriarty’ as it was known.at moriarty, n.
Spitalfields Life 24 Mar. 🌐 She had friends who all knitted and they had bits of wool left over – what you would call ‘cabbage’ - so mum collected all these balls of different coloured wool.at cabbage, n.1
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