Rubadubdub comes from Cockney rhyming slang and means 'pub' (Public House). A true Cockney is someone born within the sound of Bow Bells. (St Mary-le-Bow Church in Cheapside, London).

Some more Cockney expressions!

 

 

Here is a list of some Cockney expressions.

Adam and Eve -   believe

all night rave -   shave

apples and pears -   stairs

Artful Dodger (Dickens' Oliver Twist) - lodger anyone paying rent

bacon and eggs -   legs

bangers and mash -   cash

Barnaby Rudge -   judge

ball of fat -  cat

bees and honey -   money

bird lime - time doing bird means doing time in prison

Brahms & Liszt - pissed a common vulgar way of saying someone is drunk

brass tacks -   facts

bread & honey -   money

bricks & mortar -   daughter

Britney Spears -   beers

brown bread -   dead

butcher's hook -   look

Cain an' Abel -   table

cat an' mouse -   house

china plate -    mate

darling daughter -   water

dinky doos -   shoes

Donald Duck -   f * * k having sex

dustbin lids -   kids children

Everton toffee -   coffee

fiddle de dee -   pee urinate

fish n' chips -   tips

fourth of July -  tie

frog an' toad -   road

grasshopper -   shopper shop someone also means to inform the police about a criminal

ginger ale -   jail

Gregory Peck -   cheque

half inch - pinch pinch is another word for steal and now in general use

hey diddle diddle -   middle, or fiddle fiddle can mean to cheat with money

Joanna - piano cockneys would say piana rather than piano, so Joanna rhymes!

Jimmy Riddle -   piddle piss, urinate

kippers -   slippers

kitchen sink -   drink

Lady Godiva -   fiver a five pound note

loaf of bread -   head commonly heard in English: Use your loaf!

mince pies -   eyes

(Old) Bill -   the police ITV’s police soap opera is called The Bill

Oxford scholar -   dollar

plates of meat -   feet

plink plonk -   plonk commonly used in English as the word for cheap wine

pork pies or porky pies, or porkies -   lies

rabbit and pork -   talk the word rabbit is used in English meaning talk or talk too much

raspberry tart -   fart make a rude noise from number 2 !

Roman candles -   sandals

Rosie Lee - tea also flea

Ruby Murray a 1950's singer -   curry

rub-a-dub-dub -   pub the word pub is an abbreviation of public house

septic tank - yank British people use the word Yank for all U.S. Americans

sky rocket -   pocket

Sweeney Todd a murderous barber in old London -  The Flying Squad part of the police

tea leaf -   thief

tiddlywink -   drink

Tom & Dick -   sick

trouble & strife -   wife

Uncle Ned -   bed

Vera Lynn a famous singer from World War II -    gin