After Dark: shark. Jimmy Dancer: cancer.  Trouble-and-strife: wife. Cheese and kisses: ditto. Apples and pears: stairs. Adam and Eve: believe. Almond Rocks: socks. Aristotle: bottle. (Rhyming slanguage can then be abbreviated – e.g. to Apples and Aris). Tommy tank: wank. Billy lids: kids. Tin-lids: ditto. Blundstone (the boot): ute. Joe Blake: snake. Bag of fruit: suit. Noah’s Ark: dark. Dressing gown: ya clown. Adrian Quist: pissed. Oliver Twist: ditto. Al Capone: telephone. Dog and bone: ditto. Eau-de-cologne: ditto. Barry Crocker: shocker. Reg Grundies: undies.

Billy Hunt (a once famous Australian cricketer): ****. Rex Hunt: ditto. Hard hit: defecation. Britney Spears: beers. Bugs Bunny: money. Bulahdela (NSW town): sheilas. Charley Wheeler: ditto. Burke and Wills: dills. Butcher’s hook: crook. Captain Cook: look (Usually abbreviated to ‘have a captain’s) Camberwell and Kew: spew. China plate: mate. Comic cuts: guts. Corn cob: snob. Dad ‘n Dave: shave. Dapto dog: someone from the Mediterranean. Merri Creek: Greek. Darby and Joan: all alone. Boat race: face. Bob Hope: soap. Brace and bits: mammaries. Bread crumb: bum or derro. Fiddly-did: pre-decimal for quid. Oxford scholar: dollar. Frog and toad: road. Froth and bubble: trouble. Germaine Greer: ear. Ham and eggs: legs. Khyber Pass: buttocks. Loaf of bread: head. Mal Meninga: finger. Onkaparinga: ditto. Warwick Farm: arm.


Goanna: piano. Gregory Peck: cheque. Harold Holt: do a bolt. Hey diddle diddle: middle. Pen and ink: stink. Polly Waffle: brothel. Porky Pie: lie (usually abbreviated to simply porky). Rock and roll: dole. Rubbity dub: pub. Septic tank: Yank. Sky rocket: pocket. Snake’s hiss: piss. Steak and kidney: Sydney. Tea leaf: thief.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/weekend-australian-magazine/phillip-adams-short-guide-to-aussie-rhyming-slang/news-story/8c146816a095bebd953a8eddaf320df5



Any more?

Tea leaf: thief.

I'd never heard that one before until about a week ago.

My mother said she thought one of the carers who visits her was a tea leaf.

I just gave her a strange look   

Edgar Britt (race caller) - a poo starting with s. Also the same word Edgar Allen - (poo) (An Edgar)

Jasin wrote on Feb 4^th, 2023 at 6:27pm:

Irish? Rhyming slang is associated with Cockney culture.

MeisterEckhart wrote on Feb 4^th, 2023 at 6:34pm:



Let me tell you a little cross-talk story.
Two Irishmen, Pat and Mike, were walking along Broadway, and one said to the other,  'Begorrah, the race is not always to the swift,' and the other replied, 'Faith and begob, education is a drawing out, not a putting in.'"
(Right Ho, Jeeves)

.......

"I say, I say, I say, Pat, begorrah. I had an accident at a stately home last week."
"Faith and begob! Hampton Court?"
"No, to be sure. I just grazed my knee."
(Bus.)

MeisterEckhart wrote on Feb 4^th, 2023 at 7:48pm:

*bangs head on table

Billy Hunt ya silly crunt.

There is an excellent book, 'The Story of Australian English' by Kel Richards that goes into this, along with lots of other interesting facts about how our language developed separate to other forms of English.