Trouble & strife: killer crime stories inspired by Cockney rhyming slang
✍ Scribed by Simon Wood (ed)
- Book ID
- 100663854
- Publisher
- Down & Out Books
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 146 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Lutz, FL
- ISBN
- 1643960563
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
Welcome to the world of Cockney rhyming slang, where what is said means something completely different than how it sounds. Originally, it was a coded language created by criminals for deceiving undercover police officers during Victorian times. Common phrases like septic tank, holy water, brown bread, tomfoolery and mince pies don't mean what you think they mean. Others, like Barnaby Rudge, gypsy's kiss, smash and grab, butcher's hook, kick and prance and bubble and squeak paint a picture.
There are stories to be written about these phrases and in Trouble & Strife, the coded and colorful phrases of Cockney rhyming slang became the inspiration for eleven killer crimes stories from writers on both sides of the pond. A few choice words include:
Babbling Brook is a talkative inmate at the state penitentiary.
A hairdresser has to pay his dues for a crime that took place at Barnet Fair.
And you never want to meet a Lady from Bristol.
You don't...
✦ Subjects
Rhyming slang -- Influence -- Fiction