Rhyming slang purchase a wood burning range from a junk trader called Sam, who litters his language with phony slang in hopes of getting higher payment. He comes up with a fake story as to the origin of Cockney Rhyming slang and is caught out rather quickly. In "The Jeffersons" season 2 (1976) episode "The Breakup: Part 2", Mr. Bentley explains Cockney rhyming slang to George Jefferson, in that "whistle and flute" means "suit", "apples and pears" means "stairs", "plates of meat" means "feet". The use of rhyming slang was also prominent in "Mind Your Language" (1977–79), "Citizen Smith" (1977–80), "Minder" (1979–94),
Apples and oranges example, apples and pears are compared in Danish, Dutch, German, Spanish, Swedish, Croatian, Czech, Romanian, Hungarian, Italian, Slovene, Luxembourgish, Serbian, and Turkish. In fact, in the Spanish-speaking world, a common idiom is "sumar peras con manzanas", that is, "to add pears and apples"; the same thing applies in Italian ("sommare le mele con le pere") and Romanian ("a aduna merele cu perele"). In Portuguese, the expression is "comparar laranjas com bananas" (compare orange to banana). In Czech, the idiom "míchat jablka s hruškami" literally means 'to mix apples and pears'. Some languages use completely different items, such as the Serbian