You’re in a black cab heading from Liverpool Street when the driver mutters something about his “plates of meat”. You nod politely. You have absolutely no idea what he just said.
Welcome to Cockney rhyming slang — the two-hundred-year-old code language that grew up in London’s East End and has never quite gone away.
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