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Rabbit and porkMeaningTalk. Origin'Rabbit and pork', which is often shortened just to 'rabbit', is a nice example of Cockney rhyming slang. The first citation in print that I can find is in the British writer Gerald Kersh's wartime novel They die with their boots clean, 1941:
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