Apples and pears
Meaning Stairs. Origin Cockney rhyming slang. | ||||
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Apples and pears Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
| Australian Slang |
Apples and pears
Rhyming slang for stairs. To shoot down the apples and pears is to go down the stairs. Sometimes shortened to just apples.
Rhyming slang for stairs. To shoot down the apples and pears is to go down the stairs. Sometimes shortened to just apples.
Shoot down the apples and pears
go down the stairs
| London Slang |
apples and pears
Rhyming Slang for 'stairs'. A rather cliched Rhyming Slang term which is more often than not used in a sarcastic manner as if to emulate (or take the piss out of) cockney speech. I am forced to add this saying as I get a suggestion every couple of weeks for it.
Rhyming Slang for 'stairs'. A rather cliched Rhyming Slang term which is more often than not used in a sarcastic manner as if to emulate (or take the piss out of) cockney speech. I am forced to add this saying as I get a suggestion every couple of weeks for it.
| English Slang Dictionary v1.2 |
apples and pears
stairs. Possibly the most commonly expressed piece of Cockney rhyming slang that is used as an example of such, or used in jocular mimicry. The term is infrequently heard used in genuine daily use
stairs. Possibly the most commonly expressed piece of Cockney rhyming slang that is used as an example of such, or used in jocular mimicry. The term is infrequently heard used in genuine daily use
| rhyming slang |
Apples And Pears
Stairs
Stairs
Apples and pears Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
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Apples and Pears
Apples and Pears: Het Erewhonisch Schetsboek: Messidor - Vendémiaire 1981 (hereafter shortened to Apples and Pears) is a novella by Guy Davenport published in 1984 with three other stories: The Bowmen of Shu, Fifty-Seven Views of Fujiyama and The Chair in the collection Apples and Pears and other stories.
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