{"id":73,"date":"2014-10-27T05:48:51","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T05:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uat.adventuretours.local\/australia-outback-yarns\/?p=73"},"modified":"2016-03-22T22:50:03","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T22:50:03","slug":"hump-day-47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adventuretours.com.au\/australia-outback-yarns\/hump-day-47\/","title":{"rendered":"Hump Day #47: Aussie rhyming slang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Poms have their Cockney Rhyming Slang but over the journey the Aussies have developed a few their own.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a bit of a taste of how they may be used day-to-day:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Got a flat tyre and missed my meeting &#8211; I had a Barry Crocker!<em> (a shocker)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The game is on the weekend so I might have a Captain Cook <em>(have a look) \u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Gosh, I\u2019m running a bit late, might have to hit the frog and toad <em>(hit the road)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Forget the mayonnaise and just pass me the dead horse<em> (tomato sauce)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Found a pineapple ($50 note) on the ground so put it in my sky rocket <em>(pocket)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>I saw a Joe Blake (snake) so had to put on a fresh pair of Reg Grundies <em>(undies)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Having a quiet one in front of the telly on my Pat Malone <em>(alone)<\/em> tonight<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ripper.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image c\/o Nicki Mannix, Flickr<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Poms have their Cockney Rhyming Slang but over the journey the Aussies have developed a few their own. Here\u2019s a bit of a taste of how they may be&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[10,19,31,33,32],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guides","tag-australia","tag-facts","tag-hump-day-2","tag-phrases","tag-slang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adventuretours.com.au\/australia-outback-yarns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adventuretours.com.au\/australia-outback-yarns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adventuretours.com.au\/australia-outback-yarns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adventuretours.com.au\/australia-outback-yarns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adventuretours.com.au\/australia-outback-yarns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.adventuretours.com.au\/australia-outback-yarns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155,"href":"https:\/\/www.adventuretours.com.au\/australia-outback-yarns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adventuretours.com.au\/australia-outback-yarns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adventuretours.com.au\/australia-outback-yarns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adventuretours.com.au\/australia-outback-yarns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adventuretours.com.au\/australia-outback-yarns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}