Rhyming slang is a different language in it’s own right. Another word, phrase, or even a name substitutes for a commonly used word that rhymes with it. This section here is for my mate Warren, an expert on rhyming slang. He’s a top bloke even if he is a Dragons supporter.

Adrian Quist : p*ssed
Al Capone : telephone
apples and pears : stairs
Aristotle : bottle

bag of fruit : suit
Barry Crocker : shocker
bat and ball : stall
billy lid : kid
Bugs Bunny : money
Burke and Wills : dills
butcher’s hook : crook; look

Captain Cook : look
Charlie Wheeler : sheila
cheese and kisses : missus
comic cuts : guts
cut lunch : punch

Dad and Dave : shave
dead horse : tomato sauce
dig in the grave : shave
dog and bone : telephone
dog’s eye : pie
ducks and drakes : the shakes

eau de cologne : telephone
Edgar Britt : sh*t
elephant’s trunk : drunk

Farmer Giles : piles
frog and toad : road

gay and hearty : party
gin sling : ring
goose’s neck : cheque
Gregory Peck : cheque

halfback flanker : wanker
horse’s hoof : poof

Irish jig : wig

Jack and Jill : bill; pill
Jack Dancer : cancer
Jatz crackers : knackers
Jimmy Britt : sh*t
Jimmy Riddle : piddle
Joe Blakes : the shakes
Joey Blake : snake
Johnny Bliss : p*ss

Khyber Pass : arse
Kirribilli : silly

lazy hour : shower
lemon squash : wash
loaf of bread : head
loop the loop : soup

Mallee root : prostitute
merchant banker : wanker
Moreton Bay Fig : wig
Murray cod : nod

Niagara Falls : balls
Noah’s ark : shark
north and south : mouth

optic nerve : perve
orchestra stalls : balls
Oscar Asche : cash
Oxford scholar : dollar

Pat Malone : alone
Piccadilly : chilly
plates of meat : feet
pork and bean : queen

septic tank : Yank
sky rocket : pocket
steak and kidney : Sydney

tin tack : back; sack
trouble and strife : wife

Wally Grout : shout
Warwick Farms : arms
what’s the John Dory? : what’s the story?