You only say the first word. So china, not china plate.
Sometimes they go through several layers; arse is bottle and glass, bottle becomes Aristotle, which is shortened to Aris (which sounds kinda like arse anyway). Which gives you, “careful swee’art, ‘e always goes fo’ the Aris’.”
Well done!
I still have tab open trying to teach myself enough cockney rhyming slang to do a “We’re the Cockney Borg” meme.
Here’s what I used
Oi, that’s a Bob Hope resource right there China plate!
(Might need to work on my conjugation a bit, but that helps with the vocabulary lol)
You only say the first word. So china, not china plate.
Sometimes they go through several layers; arse is bottle and glass, bottle becomes Aristotle, which is shortened to Aris (which sounds kinda like arse anyway). Which gives you, “careful swee’art, ‘e always goes fo’ the Aris’.”
“I lent 'im me finest tweed but never again. He tore up me 'Arris.”