[Editors] British idiom?

[Liz McGrath]

Tin of Fruit = Suit
Skin and Blister = sister
Chicken's Neck = check
Apples and Pears = stairs
Dog and Bone = phone

and lots of rude ones, I will refrain from providing.

I could go on and on.  Rhyming slang is still very popular in the UK 
and in Ireland from where I hail!

Liz


>Yes, of course. From my British grandmother and P.G.
>Wodehouse.  Until I happened upon Wodehouse, I didn't realize that an
>entire species (English people in the 1920s) talked like my
>grandmother.  Another term for formal dress (as worn at dinner) was
>"the old soup and fish."
>
>At 11:39 AM 1/10/2007, Debbie Levey wrote:
>>My Chinese houseguest relies heavily on an electronic translator
>>device which seems to be programmed for British English, since it's
>>full of words which I've learned from reading the Guardian  Weekly
>>(toff, gormless). Yesterday we reviewed expressions using "soup" and
>>it listed "soup and nuts" for what we'd call "tails" (men's formal
>>clothing). Are you familiar with this term? I'd never heard it before.
>>
>>Debbie
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