by Basil Henriques » Thu Feb 27, 2014 8:40 pm
A sincere apology to all and sundry
The main point of Cockney Rhyming Slang is intimation, It's not apropos to use the FULL expression, It's not said as "Apple and Pears" or "Trouble and Strife"
It's "up the Apples," or my "Trouble has, "whatever she has.. etc.just the first word indicates the phrase, because it's an ESTABLISHED phrase and the one word is all the reference that's needed.
That is of course when it's one of the accepted ones. When you make one up, you loose the whole ethos of the lexical challenge and play on words.
The Jean-Claude and Horse, all over your Sunday, was only a Rum..
would be the Pearly's way. And isn't it concise..!
All by inference and commonality of phraseology, roughly it would equate to this.. ------>
The Jean-Claude van Damme (Cockney for Spam) and Horse and Trap (Cockney for Crap), all over your Sunday Roast, (Cockney for Post) was only a Rum and Coke (Cockney for Joke)

Steelies do it without fretting
