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[artistmarchalius]

Cockney Rhyming Slang Phrases Part 1

Part 2

In a previous post I went into Cockney rhyming slang history and gave some tips on how to use it.

In this post I’ll give you some commonly used Cockney rhyming slang phrases, phrases that I find funny, as well as some phrases that I think would be useful for Spider-Verse fic writers specifically.

So let’s get started!

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Adam and Eve - Believe

E.g. “I don’t Adam and Eve it!”

Apples and Pears - Stairs

E.g. “He fell down the apples.”

Aunt Joanna - Piano

E.g. “Play me a song on the old Joanna!” Or “Get on the Joanna and we’ll have a sing song!”

Barnet Fair - Hair

E.g. “How do I fit my barnet under my mask? Wouldn’t you like to know.”

This is a very common Cockney phrase; you’ll hear a lot of true Cockneys talking about getting their barnet done.

Barney Rubble - Trouble

E.g. “Looks like someone’s lookin’ for a Barney!”

Bread and Honey - Money

E.g. “I ain’t got enough bread for that.”

Bird Lime - Time (in prison)

E.g. “He’s doin’ bird.”

Bird lime is a sticky substance you spread on trees to catch birds (now illegal, thankfully). You can understand why people relate it to feeling trapped.

Boat Race - Face

E.g. “He’s got a handsome boat!” Or “Shut your boat!” Or “I’m not just gonna show you my boat race, mate. Secret identity and all that.”

Bottle and Glass

I’m going to let you figure this one out.

E.g. “Look at the bottle on that guy!” Or “I slipped on the steps and went bottle over tit!”

Brass Tacks - Facts

E.g. “Let’s get down to brass tacks!”*

*Some people think that this phrase originates from the Cockney rhyming slang, however others say that it is referring to brass tacks used in upholstery or tacks that were hammered into sales counters to indicate measuring points. I don’t have the answer.

Brown Bread - Dead

E.g. “He’s brown bread!”

This is an example of a Cockney rhyming slang phrase that you don’t abbreviate. You always say “brown bread” and never just “brown”.

Bubble Bath - Laugh

E.g. “Are you having a bubble?”

This is meant more in an irritated sense rather than joyful laughter, like saying “You must be joking!” Or “Are you having a laugh?”

Butchers Hook - Look

E.g. “Let’s have a butchers at that.” Or “Take a quick butchers at this!”

It’s good to keep in mind that there can be multiple Cockney rhyming slang phrases for the same word, as well as multiple Cockney rhyming slang phrases that start with the same word. For example, ‘Birds Nest” and “Bristol and West” both mean chest, and “Birds Nest” and “Bird Lime” both can be abbreviated to “Bird”. For the latter, context is important for knowing what someone is talking about.

As always, I’m not an expert; a true Cockney would know far more than I do. I just want to share the knowledge that I have. I hope that someone will find this helpful, informative, or entertaining at the very least.

I’ve got more Cockney rhyming slang phrases coming, but if there’s any other areas of British slang you’d like me to go into, let me know and I’ll see what I can do!

Happy writing and happy speaking!

My other British slang posts: Cockney Rhyming Slang, British Police Slang, Terms of Endearment, Innit VS In’t - a PSA

[maplewozapi]

I’m in a math class again don’t get me started on reading. Also math strategies are gonna fry my brain, the funniest thing is I’m considered the smartest student in whatever class I’m in I have no idea I hate it and especially in these instances because everyone think they got their answers wrong because I must be right 😭😭😭 please just let me be a dumb kid it’s too much pressure

[shuutingstar]

Do I think Aiden would unironically listen to Carless Whisper by George Michael because I do?? Yes. I will be taking zero arguments thank you.

[glendover]

ebooks are like crack to me especially when it’s the not so serious ones (by that I mean shitty romance ones)

[vethsoddities]

Veth’s Steph and Pete Headcanons

CW:This Follows The canon of NPMD the best I can so mention of funeral’s and death and the like so be warned if I forget any warns tell me and I’ll add them

and if I spelt or got any lore wrong lmk nicely thank you

Master List

A/n: I’m totally “normal” about these two I wrote these at 1 - 2 am and b4 that I tagged all of these at 1am hope these makes since I’m on new meds and they made me kinda tried and my eyes hurt so bad anyhow my requests are open check my master list it’s pinned on my profile anyway enjoy these headcanons I’m also going through and editing all this at 2:58 am so technically I’ve been working on this from 1 am to 2 am to 3 am I hope you like this

Stephanie Lauter and Peter Spankoffski headcanons

After all that happened in NPMD ie Steph losing her dad and Pete losing Richie and Ruth and Steph having to shoot him and Max stopping the bullet and doing the whole “I’m the only one who can kill you nerdy prudes” and Grace taking one for the the team by giving up what she cherished most 

Pete and Steph didn’t want to be far from each other and ending up holding each other for a while so that led to them having sleepovers at the others home Steph hated being all alone in that big house so she was glad to have Pete being there with her.

They both try to comfort the other when they start to breakdown after all that has happened Steph seems like the type who doesn’t know how to comfort someone same with Pete but they both try and they love the other for that

Steph and Pete didn’t label their relationship right away because they weren’t sure what would happen after all that went down but they knew for a fact they loved the other after a LONG and I mean a Long time of denying the fact they were in love each other like they canonically had a song about it too but after a bit calls each other their partner or girlfriend/ boyfriend thing

These two in my mind both have They in their pronouns and or possibly t4t because they aren’t totally straight in my mind Pete to me seems unlabeled but Steph is either Pansexual or Bisexual and could be gender-fluid and or She/they but either Gender fluid or Demi girl she has She/They pronouns

Pete without a doubt is trans FTM and uses He/Him and possibly on occasion uses They and or them and I could possibly see him as Asexual but I’m not for sure on that one just yet

Pete definitely drives home the fact that Steph is smart and that he’s proud of her and whatever else Solomon told her is bull shit and he loves her no matter what and that he will be their for her no matter what

Steph does the same type of thing for Pete that he is in fact cool to her and not a loser and comforts him fully and says that he’s a handsome always especially when gender dysphoria kicks his ass and will be their for him through it all

This could be me projecting but these two would probably give a little smooch on the other’s forearm and tell the other they love them

I feel like Steph would do Pete’s hair into different hairstyles, Steph definitely teases him lovingly about the bow ties still

Steph at some point mentioned thinking about doing a wolf cut or short hair and Pete supported her no matter what Steph did the same with his hair if he wanted to cut it or let it grow more either way she could still run her hands through his hair

And as Steph does in canon affectionately calls Pete a Nerd and him possibility calling her Mean Girl or probably something else it’s 3:11 am rn and I’m proof reading this when I could be sleeping to creativity is low lmfao

Homecoming was fun for both of them and as it should be I think they have photos of it both digital and Polaroid and for the Polaroids, they have the pictures hanging up on an aesthetic string and clips thing

Content warring here’s the mention of Funerals and death(ig I don’t think I say it at all but still be aware)

Now when it came to the funeral’s of Richie,Ruth it was a ruff time for both of them and seeing as they all were friends it was one of the Moments Steph comforts Pete even if it wasn’t something she was good at still

and after words they visit Ruth and Richie’s graves and leaves flowers and possibly Anime themed stuff for Richies grave and no matter what both Ruth and Richie gets flowers on their respective graves 

When Solomon’s funeral came around I think Stephanie kinda shut down having to be around her fathers colleagues friends and connecting and was going into auto pilot going through the motions of everything that she knew how to act as to make sure Solomon’s image looked good

Pete was their with her and after a while pulled her away from the people so he could make sure she was okay as she could be for what was happening and she just broke down and they decided to leave after funeral things happened

I feel like after wards of both funerals just like after NPMD but before homecoming’s they just held each other to comfort one another and saying sweet things to each other because they love each other

[whimseee]

people who are good at words need to be more accessible

[miraculouscataclyyysm]

I just had a pretty grim realisation in regards to Zoe about what might happen in kwamis choice part two…

so at the end of part one hawkbitch found out the new holder's identity because of the alliance rings, so I’m assuming in part two monarchs gonna go after Alya and Zoe directly since he is the advantage which also means the general public will most likely find out the identities of scarabella (Alya) and chat zoe which will lead to ladybug and chat noir getting the miraculous back…and will also most likely mean Chloe will find out Zoe was a miraculous holder and even if she doesn't find out Zoe was Vesperia and instead finds out she was the new chat noir she’s still gonna go mad because of her jealousy and anger at ladybug… which will make Zoe’s home life even worse…and I really don’t want that

[alottanothing]

Be me:

*is dyslexic*

*easily confuses left and right*

*plays Red Dead Redemption 2*

*repeatedly shoots NPCs I just wanted to talk to.*

[nadekofannumber1]

Death, Oddities, and Sengoku Nadeko

Sengoku Nadeko is one of the most important characters in the world to me. She’s been a character I’ve loved for years and seen so many interpretations of that it’s given such a strong perspective to how she can reflect anyone and everyone that looks within her. Yet, even as a character that I’ve seen so much of, I haven’t seen enough about Nadeko’s relationship with death. Thus this essay will be about the character who really was the first to make me feel seen, and try to make others see one of the things I think interestingly ties parts of her arc together. Thus begins this essay, of death, oddities, and Sengoku Nadeko.

Nadeko’s character has many core tenants tenants; self loathing, disassociation, personal agency, stagnation, and very importantly, control. Most things Nadeko does early on are for a sense of control. Allegorical readings akin her behavior to self harm in her first arc but I’d say over all it’s a bit more complex than traditional understandings of self harm, it doesn’t stick around, she doesn’t have the urge to start again, and it doesn’t leave scars (like with Kanbaru). The way Nadeko engages in her self destruction is by spiraling and getting drastic when her internal world is thrown off balance and not asking for help. And that’s where the metaphorical to pseudometaphorical constructs like oddities come in.

Oddities in series are stated to be the manifestation of human belief. Allegorically speaking they represent mental illness. Yet when you draw the line between being afflicted by an oddity and being one it’s very consistently observable that being an oddity is more akin to death. To give easy examples Yotsugi, Shinobu, and Hachikuji are dead. The rainy devil can kill Kanbaru if she gives in, Araragi’s decent into vampire hood is a suicide attempt explicitly, and respectively in musubi some of Araragi’s coworkers are shown in a lens of terminal illness and a traumatic near death experience. However not all exactly fit the strict dichotomy of life and death in a traditional sense:

- Black Hanekawa’s original form is that of a dead cat though hanekawa being black hanekawa is not really something I can dichotomize as a state of being dead thematically (especially considering musubi+ hanekawa). This leaves it in a larger Schrödinger situation.

-Ougi is the embodiment of Araragi’s self loathing and suicidal feelings as a literal Jungian shadow self.

-It’s hard to consider Tsukihi someone dead if the original child was never alive to begin with but she’s not someone who can die in a traditional sense, but she holds the unchanging nature that oddities have.

- Mitome Sasaki is a coworker of Koyomi who is a werewolf who’s oddity has nothing to do with death and honestly holds stronger neurodivergent coding than anything.

- Some short or side stories have oddities that are more just concepts than anything.

and,

-the whole deal with the gaen family as a whole stands as a thing that’s honestly something between generational trauma and genetic predisposition to mental illness. It’s too complicated to consider something as simple as just death or mental illness.

Even with these outliers it’s worth considering the death angle with becoming god because while Nadeko does parallel a decent amount with Hanekawa, she just as easily parallels Shinobu and Araragi in other ways.

Let’s consider what it means to give up your own humanity in the lens of Nadeko. To become god is to cease to be human, to be above it all and be something that has to love itself because she is god. A true oddity. When she hurt those snakes she hurt herself, but what this is, is beyond the existence of pain. Controlling pain beyond feelings of hurt is a dangerous slope one can fall on, it’s dangerous because part of it is easy to do but it’s hard to stop. Being a person is hard and by never changing, growing, or becoming anything, she like a member of the dead.

I’d say Nadeko becoming a god is an attempt at death in the heat of a moment. But what is my further proof in saying this? If I’m to use something like Mousou Express I’d say the lyrics referencing falling into an eternal sleep speak for themselves. In the early unreliable parts of otori she states “I wanted him to chase Nadeko, I wanted him to save Nadeko, and I wanted him to end Nadeko”. Even with this unreliable part of her hoping someone stops her in otori can be a way to show this seeking of obliteration. More than anything Nadeko’s willingness to fall out of her real life in her own mind can show her strong distaste for living, if she never lets herself experience pain she doesn’t have to know how much she hates living. I wonder, what‘s her plan after this? An interesting question considering all of this is if Nadeko considers herself truly alive while she’s one of the living.

Nadeko spends months doing nothing as a human, and after becoming god she spends months doing nothing as a member of the dead. When she kills Araragi and everyone she knows she would entirely sever her ties to the living and nothing could save her. As a god she doesn’t have to hate that stagnation, she can live on the high of being a god forever. But then Kaiki convinces her there’s enough value in being alive even if it’s not particularly happy. After recovering from her attempt in the hospital for a month or few, she starts trying to live; making manga she wants to. In a way could could compare the godhood to her own NEET-dom but she’s literally improving herself and trying to live even as a shut in, she has friends as a shut in she talks to people for real, she makes her own choices, that’s not a death that’s life, it’s living in the truest sense even if it’s not a traditional path in life. Then after that in Nademonogatari she starts to learn to love herself, and comes to realize how vulnerable of a person she was and is and that’s not something to be ashamed of. Her dark colored desires are granted sympathy instead of hatred, which is a beautiful transition out of ungodly horrible self loathing. I can say clearly that even though Nadeko nearly “dies”, she recovers and becomes happier. I believe that is a beautiful message to a character that means so much to me.

So that’s the tale, the story of Nadeko I intend to tell. Coming to your own conclusions is of course important as well yet here we are. Finishing our discussion of death, oddities, and Sengoku Nadeko.

[mossywizard]

Last bit started cuz I finished my first book of Canaanite myths and now moving to Mesopotamia…. And then I need to get more resources that are more up to date? Or decide how badly I want to know if these are good translations… and maybe learn Akkadian…but I don’t know other practical languages yet I’m a silly American

[harmonymarigold]

So I did make myself a side blog so I can reblog more with out feeling like I’m making this one messy. There’s really no reason for you to follow it, I’m just letting you all know because I think the name is funny: @harmonymariblog

[zentenal]

Og rapunzul core

well maybe if adoption was more accessible to single parents and lesbian couples, witches wouldn’t have to go haggling for people’s firstborns

[furitygirly]

I’m growing out my nails and I normally have very lttile but now that my nails are about a millimeter and a half ish long I find myself making more typos

Because I type with the tips of my fingers and the nail is blocking me from doing so I end up clicking on the wrong letters

[mysecret-hideout]

Me bec Statistics makes me want to tie cement blocks around my little feetsies and jump into a river

[dykecubes]

I’m actually 🤓👆the font he uses is arial rounded bold not comic sans

i've said it before and i'll say it again tommyinnit's subtitles are amazing and should be the norm and i'm so happy he does it

it's great for several reasons

it's in comic sans which sure could be for the bit but comic sans is a more dyslexia-friendly font, which is great for people with dyslexia trying to you know, read the captions.

the people speaking are color-coded so you don't have to try and figure out whose speaking

there is love and thought put into the captioning, its not just the words people are saying but also they show when things are music, the voice people use with the wiggly or static effect, have the sounds people make, and the little silly smiley faces that you can hear in the audio and it means people can get the full experience without the audio

its part of the video, its not just for people who need it, its a part of the experience which is great because it normalizes the use of close-captioning and makes the video more fun

so shout out to tommyinnit, any of his editors who do the captioning, and anyone who has ever done cations like this you are wonderful <3