Answers to the Holtby Trader Vernacular Quiz
- Up the apples and pears up the stairs
- Would you Adam and Eve it? believe it
- Pass the Army gravy
- What knobbly biscuits! knees
- Take a butcher’s at this a look
- You’re talking cobblers balls
- Use your crust head
- Stick that up your Khyber (pass)
- What beautiful minces eyes
- Don’t rabbit on so talk
- I can smell raspberry (tart)
- Scarpa! The police are coming go!
- The trouble and strife is out wife
- I’ve had my Barnet cut hair
- I’m ironing my Uncle Bert shirt
- She has a lovely pair of bacons legs
- Hand over the bees money
- We had a bull and cow about it row
- Pooh, it pens a bit in here stinks
- I live near my baker’s dozen cousin
- She’s a bit daffy silly
Tie break: Why Bow Bells?
Cockneys are born within the range of their sound.