How I love Glasgow, fabulous city, and, although originating from the cockney belt that is the East End of London, I have to admit that prison rhyming slang appeared long before Cockney's claim to it. Although I'm told that prison slang was often twice removed just to complicate things and leave the prison warders baffled. As in:JPB wrote: ↑Wed Apr 04, 2018 6:17 pmAhh, bless! GHT, would you happen to know whether that lovely senior citizen is looking to adopt a 53 year old man-child with odd taste in motors and even odder taste in food? I'm bored with the single person thing but couldn't tolerate sharing my home full time or having to wear clothing even when it's summer, far too stressful, all of that "trouble" trouble.
Trouble, colloquialism, n. 'Wegian rhyming slang "Trouble and Strife" = wife. Yes yes, I know that London claimed rhyming slang as her own invention, but in actual fact, this form of rabbit was invented in Glasgow; mahoosive city some 100ish miles that way *points W/N/W*.
How does your backside wind up as your Harris? There's many a version to this and whether this one is authentic or not, doesn't really matter. What it does, is to demonstrate what twice removed means.
Harris, as in Harris Tweed. Tweed, as in Tweedle Dee, & Tweedle Dum, Tweedle Dum rhymes with bum.
Did you want Grandma's phone number?