035/366 Cream Crackered
Cockney rhyming slang is a form of phrase construction in the English language that is especially prevalent in dialectal English from the East End of London. The construction involves replacing a common word with a rhyming phrase of two or three words and then, in almost all cases, omitting the secondary rhyming word (which is thereafter implied), in a process called hemiteleia, making the origin and meaning of the phrase elusive to listeners not in the know.
Examples: apples and pears = stairs, dog and bone = phone. In my example cream crackered = knackered.
More examples www.ruf.rice.edu/~kemmer/Words04/usage/slang_cockney.html
Definitely not used here in America something I often forget and I receive some strange looks when I use it. For those not in the know knackered is tired.
035/366 Cream Crackered
Cockney rhyming slang is a form of phrase construction in the English language that is especially prevalent in dialectal English from the East End of London. The construction involves replacing a common word with a rhyming phrase of two or three words and then, in almost all cases, omitting the secondary rhyming word (which is thereafter implied), in a process called hemiteleia, making the origin and meaning of the phrase elusive to listeners not in the know.
Examples: apples and pears = stairs, dog and bone = phone. In my example cream crackered = knackered.
More examples www.ruf.rice.edu/~kemmer/Words04/usage/slang_cockney.html
Definitely not used here in America something I often forget and I receive some strange looks when I use it. For those not in the know knackered is tired.