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A bull and cow ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for row or argument )
A little learning is a dangerous thing ( from a
poem
by Alexander Pope )
(
the meaning and origin of this phrase...
)
A
match
made in heaven
A narrow fellow in the grass ( from a
poem
by Emily Dickinson )
A thing of beauty is a joy forever ( from a
poem
by Keats )
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the meaning and origin of this phrase...
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And miles to go before I sleep ( from a
poem
by Robert Frost )
Apples and pears ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for stairs )
Baa baa black sheep have you any wool? ( line from nursery rhyme )
Barnet Fair ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for hair )
Beat the
rap
Beauty is truth, truth beauty; that is all ( from a
poem
by Keats )
Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me ( from a
poem
by Dickinson )
Blood blister ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for sister )
Blow a raspberry ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for fart )
Bo Peep ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for sleep )
Boat race ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for face )
Bottle and glass ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for arse )
Brahms and Lizst ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for pissed )
Brass tacks ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for facts )
Bricks and mortar ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for daughter )
Brighton Pier ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for queer )
Bristols ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for titties )
Brown bread ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for dead )
Bum
rap
Busy old fool, unruly sun ( from a
poem
by John Donne )
But at my back I always hear ( from a
poem
by Marvell )
Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker ( from a
poem
by Nash )
Chapter and
verse
Charge of the Light Brigade ( British cavalry charge against Russian army in the Crimean War and title of a
poem
by Tennyson )
Cherry ripe ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for pipe )
China plate ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for mate )
Come Into The Garden Maud ( Tennyson
poem
and Victorian song )
Cream crackered ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for knackered )
Currant bun ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for sun )
Daisy roots ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for boots )
Desmond Tutu ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for Second class degree ( 2,2 ) )
Dicky Dirt ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for shirt )
Ding dong bell Pussy's in the well ( line from nursery rhyme )
Do not go gentle into that good night ( from a
poem
by Dylan Thomas )
Doctor Foster went to Gloucester ( line from nursery rhyme )
Dog and bone ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for telephone )
Donkey's years ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for ears )
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the meaning and origin of this phrase...
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Down came a blackbird and pecked off her nose ( line from nursery rhyme )
Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes ( Ben Jonson
poem
and Victorian song )
Eeny meeny miny mo
Elephant's trunk ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for drunk )
Everywhere that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go ( line from nursery rhyme )
Farmers ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for piles )
Finders keepers, losers weepers
Five for silver ( Magpie nursery rhyme )
Five, six, pick up sticks ( line from nursery rhyme )
For want of a nail the shoe was lost ( line from nursery rhyme )
Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie ( line from nursery rhyme )
Four for a boy ( Magpie nursery rhyme )
Frog and toad ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for road )
Game set and
match
Gangster
rap
George Raft ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for daft )
Georgie Porgie pudding and pie ( line from nursery rhyme )
Ginger Beer ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for queer )
Glow Little Glow-worm ( children's nursery rhyme )
Goosey Goosey Gander where shall I wander ( line from nursery rhyme )
Gregory Peck ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for neck )
Gunpowder treason and plot ( line from nursery rhyme )
Half a pound of tuppenny rice, half a pound of treacle ( line from nursery rhyme )
Half inch ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for pinch )
Hampsteads ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for teeth )
Hampton ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for prick )
Hatch,
match
and dispatch
Have a Captain Cook ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for look )
He put in his thumb and pulled out a plum ( line from nursery rhyme )
He went to bed and bound his head with vinegar and brown paper ( line from nursery rhyme )
Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle ( line from nursery rhyme )
Hickory dickory dock the mouse ran up the clock ( line from nursery rhyme )
Hobson's choice ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for voice )
Hope springs eternal in the human breast ( from a
poem
by Alexander Pope )
Horse and cart ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for fart )
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways ( from a
poem
by Browning )
Human kind cannot bear very much reality ( from a
poem
by Eliot )
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall ( line from nursery rhyme )
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the meaning and origin of this phrase...
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I am the master of my fate ( from a
poem
by Henley )
I grow old, I grow old, I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled ( from a
poem
by Eliot )
I think that I shall never see a
poem
lovely as a tree, Kilmer )
I wandered lonely as a cloud ( from a
poem
by Wordsworth )
If you can keep your head when all about you ( from a
poem
by Kipling )
In Flanders fields the poppies blow ( from a
poem
by McCrae )
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan ( from a
poem
by Coleridge )
Iron hoof ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for poof )
It's all gone Pete Tong ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for gone wrong )
It's raining, it's pouring, the old man is snoring
Itsy Bitsy spider climbing up the spout, down came the rain and washed the spider out ( line from nursery rhyme )
J Arthur ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for wank )
Jack Palancing ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for dancing )
Jack Sprat could eat no fat ( line from nursery rhyme )
Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water ( line from nursery rhyme )
Jack be nimble Jack be quick ( line from nursery rhyme )
Jack fell down and broke his crown ( line from nursery rhyme )
Jack jump over the candlestick ( line from nursery rhyme )
Jam jar ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for car )
Jimmy Horner ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for corner )
Jimmy Riddle ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for piddle )
Khyber pass ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for arse )
Liar liar: pants on fire
Little Bo peep has lost her sheep ( line from nursery rhyme )
Little Boy Blue come blow your horn ( line from nursery rhyme )
Little Jack Horner sat in a corner ( line from nursery rhyme )
Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet eating her curds and whey ( line from nursery rhyme )
Little Robin Red breast sat upon a tree ( line from nursery rhyme )
Little Tommy Tucker sings for his supper ( line from nursery rhyme )
Loaf of bread ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for head )
London bridge is falling down ( line from nursery rhyme )
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair ( from a
poem
by Shelley )
Lord Fred ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for bed )
Love
match
Lucy Locket lost her pocket ( line from nursery rhyme )
Mary Mary quite contrary, how does your garden grow ( line from nursery rhyme )
Mary had a little lamb its fleece was white as snow ( line from nursery rhyme )
Meet your
match
Mince pies ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for eyes )
Mix and
match
More than a
match
for
Mutt and Jeff ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for deaf )
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun ( from a
poem
by Shakespeare )
My old Dutch ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for duchess )
My old china ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for mate )
North and south ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for mouth )
Not with a bang but a whimper ( from a
poem
by Eliot )
Old King Cole was a merry old soul, and a merry old soul was he ( line from nursery rhyme )
Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard to get her poor doggie a bone ( line from nursery rhyme )
On your Pat ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for alone )
On your jack ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for alone )
On your tod ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for alone )
One for sorrow ( Magpie nursery rhyme )
One two buckle my shoe ( line from nursery rhyme )
Oranges and lemons say the bells of Saint Clements ( line from nursery rhyme )
Orson cart ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for fart )
Oxford scholar ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for dollar )
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the meaning and origin of this phrase...
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Oxo cube ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for tube )
Pat a cake, Pat a cake, baker's man, bake me a cake as fast as you can ( line from nursery rhyme )
Pen and ink ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for stink )
Perfect
match
Peter Peter pumpkin eater ( line from nursery rhyme )
Pig's ear ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for beer )
Plates of meat ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for feet )
Polly put the kettle on, we'll all have tea ( line from nursery rhyme )
Pony and trap ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for crap )
Porky pies ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for lies )
Potatoes in the mould ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for cold )
Pussycat pussycat, where have you been? ( line from nursery rhyme )
Rabbit and pork ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for talk )
Rain, rain go away, come again another day ( line from nursery rhyme )
Rap
over the knuckles
Raspberry tart ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for fart )
Remember remember the fifth of November ( line from nursery rhyme )
Rhyme nor reason
Rich man poor man beggerman thief
Richard the Third ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for turd )
Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross to see a fine lady upon a white horse ( line from nursery rhyme )
Ring aring of roses, a pocketful of posies, atishoo, atishoo, all fall down ( line from nursery rhyme )
Rock a bye baby on the tree top, when the wind blows the cradle will rock ( line from nursery rhyme )
Rock and boulder ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for shoulder )
Roses are red, violets are blue
Rosie Lea ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for tea )
Round and round the garden like a teddy bear ( line from nursery rhyme )
Rub a dub ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for pub )
Ruby Murray ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for curry )
Saturday's child works hard for a living
Scarper ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for go )
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness ( from a
poem
by Keats )
Seesaw Margery Daw Johnny shall have a new master ( line from nursery rhyme )
Seven for a secret, never to be told ( Magpie nursery rhyme )
Sexton Blake ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for fake )
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? ( from a
poem
by Shakespeare )
Sherman tanks ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for Yanks )
Simple Simon met a pieman going to the fair ( line from nursery rhyme )
Sing a song of sixpence a pocket full of rye ( line from nursery rhyme )
Six for gold ( Magpie nursery rhyme )
Skin and blister ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for sister )
Sticks and snails and puppy dog's tails that's what little boys are made of ( line from nursery rhyme )
Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone ( from a
poem
by Auden )
Sugar and spice and all things nice that's what little girls are made of ( line from nursery rhyme )
Syrup ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for wig )
Take a butchers ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for look )
Take the
rap
Taters ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for cold )
Tea leaf ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for thief )
Ten green bottles sitting on the wall
The Big Ship Sails on The Ally-Ally-Oh ( line from nursery rhyme )
The Grand old Duke of York he had ten thousand men ( line from nursery rhyme )
The North wind doth blow and we shall have snow ( line from nursery rhyme )
The Owl and the Pussycat went to sea in a beautiful pea-green boat ( line from nursery rhyme )
The Queen of Hearts she made some tarts all on a summer's day ( line from nursery rhyme )
The Road Not Taken ( Robert Frost
poem
)
The Thriller In Manila ( Ali versus Frazier boxing
match
)
The child is father of the man ( from a
poem
by Wordsworth )
The cow jumped over the moon ( line from nursery rhyme )
The dish ran away with the spoon ( line from nursery rhyme )
The house that Jack built ( line from nursery rhyme )
The king was in his counting house counting out his money ( line from nursery rhyme )
The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n ( from a
poem
by Milton )
The moving finger writes; and, having writ, moves on ( from a
poem
by Fitzgerald )
The old lie: Dulce et Decorum Est ( from a
poem
by Owen )
The proper study of mankind is man ( from a
poem
by Alexander Pope )
The queen was in the parlour eating bread and honey ( line from nursery rhyme )
The sheep's in the meadow the cow's in the corn ( line from nursery rhyme )
The smoker's
match
( Swan Vesta matches advertising slogan )
There was a crooked man and he walked a crooked mile ( line from nursery rhyme )
There was an old woman who lived in a shoe ( line from nursery rhyme )
They also serve who only stand and wait ( from a
poem
by Milton )
They danced by the light of the moon ( line from nursery rhyme )
They dined on mince, and slices of quince ( line from nursery rhyme )
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold ( from a
poem
by Yeats )
This little piggy had roast beef, this little piggy had none ( line from nursery rhyme )
This little piggy went to market, this little piggy stayed at home ( line from nursery rhyme )
Three blind mice, see how they run ( line from nursery rhyme )
Three for a girl ( Magpie nursery rhyme )
Three on a
match
Three, four, knock at the door ( line from nursery rhyme )
Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all ( from a
poem
by Tennyson )
Titfer ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for hat )
To err is human; to forgive, divine ( from a
poem
by Alexander Pope )
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield ( from a
poem
by Tennyson )
Tom Tom the pipers son stole a pig and away he ran ( line from nursery rhyme )
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams ( from a
poem
by Yeats )
Trouble and strife ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for wife )
Twinkle twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are ( line from nursery rhyme )
Two and eight ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for state )
Two for joy ( Magpie nursery rhyme )
Two little dicky birds sitting on a wall, one named Peter, one named Paul ( line from nursery rhyme )
Uncle Dick ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for sick )
Uncle Ned ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for bed )
Up above the world so high , like a diamond in the sky ( line from nursery rhyme )
Up and down the city road
Upstairs, downstairs and in my lady's chamber ( line from nursery rhyme )
Weasel and Stoat ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for coat )
Wee Willie Winkie runs through the town, upstairs and downstairs in his nightgown ( line from nursery rhyme )
What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare ( from a
poem
by Davies )
When I am an old woman I shall wear purple ( from a
poem
by Joseph )
When the bough breaks the cradle will fall, and down will come baby, cradle and all ( line from nursery rhyme )
When they were up, they were up ( line from nursery rhyme )
Whistle and flute ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for suit )
Who killed Cock Robin ( line from nursery rhyme )
Whole shooting
match
With rings on her fingers and bells on her toes she shall have music wherever she goes ( line from nursery rhyme )
With silver bells and cockle shells and pretty maids all in a row ( line from nursery rhyme )
Would you Adam and Eve it? ( Cockney
rhyming
slang for would you believe it? )