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Can you work out these 'Cockney Rhyming Slang' phrases and their (single word) definitions?
Example:
Pink-tinted boys name / A very English drink
=
Rosy Lee / Tea
1. Bother & Contention / A Husband's Partner
2. Round and funny shaped green fruits / The wooden hill
3. Delicate crockery / Friend
4. Green croaking thing and its larger friend / Vehicles causeway
Example:
Pink-tinted boys name / A very English drink
=
Rosy Lee / Tea
1. Bother & Contention / A Husband's Partner
2. Round and funny shaped green fruits / The wooden hill
3. Delicate crockery / Friend
4. Green croaking thing and its larger friend / Vehicles causeway
Hint
Here are the first letters of the Cockney Rhyming Slang you are looking for. (Not the definitions!)1. T & S
2. A & P
3. C P
4. F & T
Answer
1. Trouble & Strife / Wife2. Apples & Pears / Stairs
3. China Plate / Mate
4. Frog & Toad / Road
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