In Cockney rhyming slang - apples means 'stairs'.Read more at:apples-rhyming-slang
a cockney rhyming slang that means stairs
'Dancers' is Cockney rhyming slang for 'stairs' by this process; Stairs = Dancing Bears = Dancers
In Cockney Rhyming Slang, the slang for stairs is Apples and Pears; * We need a new carpet for the apples and pears. * Goodnight dear I'm going up the Apples and pears to Bedfordshire.
The Cockney rhyming slang expression for "wife" is "trouble and strife".
The full form is "apples and pears" but you usually hear just "apples."
*correction* Whilst not cockney RHYMING slang, it is cockney slang- cockney slang for Anal Sex or 'buggery'This is slang and this is UK slang but not cockney rhyming slang as best I can determine. Sailor cake or more commonly referred to as navy cake is when two men engage in activities from behind. To be rhyming slang the word cake would have to rhyme with the referent. In this case, it does not. Example; apples and pears for stairs, trouble and strife for wife, china plate for mate. This is straight forward slang such as apron for flag, blagged for robbed or bloody for, well, what ever that is supposed to mean.
A Cockney rhyming slang for Trouble is Barney Rubble.
China Plate is Cockney slang for Mate
Cockney rhyming slang is a form of slang in which a word or phrase is replaced by a rhyming phrase, with the rhyming word omitted. For example, "apples and pears" rhymes with "stairs," so "apples" might be used to mean stairs. It is a way of speaking that developed in the East End of London as a form of secret language among the working-class community.
A "ton" is Cockney rhyming slang for a hundred pounds.
Apples and Pears is slang for stairs. Table is Aunt Mabel, Betty Grable or Cain & Abel. Chair is Fred Astaire or Lions Lair.