Adam and Eve = believe ('would you adam and eve it?')
Arstotle = Bottle
Cobblers (cobblers awls, or cobblers stalls) = Balls ('you're talking cobblers')
Boat (boat race) = face
Bobble (Bobble hat and scarf) = laugh (“you're having a bobble”, ie., you cannot be serious)
Brahms (Brahms and Liszt) = pissed
Brass Tacks = Facts ('let's get down to brass tacks')
Bread (bread and honey) = money
Bird (bird lime) = Time (prison)
Bristols (Bristol Cities) = titties (breasts)
Brown Bread = dead
Butchers (butchers hook) = look ('give us butchers..')
Charlie (Charlie Hunt) = (yes you guessed it again – remember it next time you call someone a right charlie)
Chewy toffee = coffee
China (china plate) = mate ('me old china')
Cloud seven = heaven
Crust (crust of bread) = head
Dickie Bird = word
Dickie Dirt = shirt
Dipstick = prick (bet you never knew that was rhyming slang)
Dog and bone = phone
Duch (duchess of Fife) = wife ('me old Duch')
Dunlop Tyre = liar
Earwig = twig (understand, to catch on – now evolved to mean eavesdrop)
Elephants (elephants trunk) = drunk
Flying duck = (yes you guessed it – and now more commonly evolved back to give the expression 'couldn't give a flying fuck')
Greens (greengages) = wages (money)
Ginger (ginger beer) = queer (homosexual)
Jam jar = car
Joe Soap = dope (stupid man)
Khyber (Khyber Pass) = arse
Loaf (loaf of bread) = head ('use your loaf')
Marbles (marbles and conkers) = bonkers (mad – probably the root of the expression 'lost your marbles' meaning gone mad)
Merchant banker = wanker
Micky (Micky Bliss) = Piss (the origin of 'taking the micky' – bet you never knew that)
Moby Dick = sick
Mutton (Mutt and Jeff) = deaf (originally from an American fictional pair of bungling characters called Mutt and Jeff, popularised by the cartoonist HC 'Bud' Fischer in the 1930's)
Nellie Duff = puff (breath, evolved into 'not on your nellie' – puff being breath, and breath being life)
Old bag = hag (horrible woman – bet you never knew that was rhyming slang.)
Pipe (pipe and drum) = bum
Pony (pony and trap) = crap
Porky (pork pie) = lie (fib)
Raspberry (raspberry tart) = fart (evolved to include 'blowing a raspberry' with the tongue)
Razzmatazz = jazz (evolved to mean general excitement)
Rubber/rubber dub (Rub-a-dub-dub) = Pub (or club)
Tea leaf = thief
Tiddly (tiddly wink) = drink (now evolved to mean drunk)
Titfer (Tit for tat) = hat
Tod (Tod Sloane) = alone, (on your own – 'on your tod')
Toe rag = slag (originally meaning a girl of easy virtue, but now evolved to mean an unpleasant person)
Tom (tomfoolery) = jewellery ('Tom' now means any stolen goods)
Trombone = phone
Trouble (trouble and strife) = wife
Two and eight = state ('in a right old two and eight')
Uncle Dick = sick
Vera Lynn = gin