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),
Discworld characters reveals that in Dimwell slang, ""syrup of prunes"" means wig. (In Cockney rhyming slang, the expected derivation would be ""syrup of figs".") Another example given in the text is ""cup-and-plate""—no definition is given, but ""He's a bit cup-and-plate in the head"" implies it means ""not quite right"." Tolliver also had a very small part in "[[Wintersmith]]". The wintersmith approaches him to take some sulfur, so that he would become a man. This incident was reported in The Ankh Morpork Times, and a widow approached him, swayed by 'a man who knows his hygiene.' It is now believed that they are