Rhyming slang all cases, omitting, from the end of the phrase, the secondary rhyming word (which is thereafter implied), making the origin and meaning of the phrase elusive to listeners not in the know. The form that is followed is made clear with the following example. The rhyming phrase "apples and pears" evolved to mean "stairs". Following the pattern of omission, "and pears" is dropped, thus the spoken phrase "I'm going up the apples" means "I'm going up the stairs". The following are further common examples of these phrases: Thus a construction of the following type could conceivably arise: "It nearly knocked
Prick (slang) as fairly inoffensive. By the 20th and 21st centuries, several expressions related to prick were being used. “To look at every woman through a hole in one's prick” refers to a man who views every woman as a potential instrument of sexual pleasure. A short stout person has sometimes been described as 'short and thick like a Welshman's prick.” In Cockney rhyming slang, a penis is described as a “Hampton Wick”, a “Hampton” or a "wick" because it rhymes with 'prick'. An English proverb says "A standing prick has no conscience.". In "Pedagogical Desire: Authority, Seducation, Transference, and the Question