Having access to cable tv, there are a lot of old programmes like The Sweeney, or Minder, where rhyming slang is used.
Examples the other day, the second of which I had to think about long enough to miss the next bit of the "plot".
'Ang on, he's movin' the Joanna...
And
So I was doin' the needful wiv a smarmy bubble...
Did/does anyone in real life ever talk like that? It's probably all some sort of cod Jamaican/American street talk now. I mean, like wow, man, that stuff just ain't hep.
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