EVERYONE'S familiar with some basic cockney rhyming slang – but how well do you know the language's Dicky Birds?
Meghan Markle's American staff have enjoyed some of the London phrases she's picked up during her time in the capital, but it's unlikely she'll be referring to her staircase as the 'apple and pears' in her new multi-million pound mansion.
The quirky dialect first started in the East End of London in the nineteenth century and some of its terms have entered widespread usage all over Britain.
So how well do you know cockney rhyming slang?
Read our A to Z quiz (with some helpful clues) below and, when you're ready, have a butcher's at the answers at the bottom.
1. Adam and Eve
2. Barney Rubble
3. Cat and Mouse
4. Dustbin Lid
5. Eggs and Kippers
6. Fridge Freezer
7. Giraffe
8. Half Inch
9. Inspector Morse
10. Jazz Band
11. Kevin Keegan
12. Lemonade
13. Moby Dick
14. Needle and Pin
15. Oxo Cube
16. Pete Tong
17. Quentin Tarantino
18. Rusty Nail
19. Soup and Gravy
20. Trouble and Strife
21. Uri Geller
22. Vindaloo
23. Whistle and Flute
24. Malcolm X
25. Yogi Bear
26. Zippy and Bungle
Answers
- Believe
- Trouble
- House
- Kid
- Slippers
- Geezer
- Laugh
- Pinch
- Sauce
- Hand
- Vegan
- Spade
- Sick
- Gin
- Tube
- Wrong
- Vino
- Jail
- Navy
- Wife
- Stella
- Clue
- Suit
- Text
- Hair
- Jungle
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