

Put your plates up, pour yourself a cupper Rosie, and have a butcher's.
Come again? This illustrated
playing-card sized deck features a Cockney phrase--rhyming slang meant to be
impenetrable by its
originators--on one side of each card, definitions and examples of usage on
the other. Highly enter-
taining, this 48 card deck pays service to this rude, ribald, poetic and sometimes
wildly funny language
of which only a few scraps have seeped into mainstream English in the past couple
of centuries.