tell a porky
tell a lie
TRANSLATION
tell a porky = lügen tell a porky pie = lügen Cockney Rhyming Slang für: Lüge Cockney = eingeborener Londoner porky (UK) = Schwindelei porky (US) = Stachelschwein
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
BBC Payout Row: Someone Is TELLING PORKIES. The former director general directly contradicts the chairman of the BBC Trust and both can't be telling the truth.
(Sky News)
(Sky News)
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tell a porky (London slang)
noun phrase
(tell) a porky (also porky-pie) = a lie
(Oxford Dictionary)
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A pork pie is a traditional English dish, a pastry filled with chopped pork. The expression "porky-pies" means "lies" in rhyming slang, often referred to as Cockney rhyming slang.
Rhyming slang originated in London in Victorian England in the early to mid-1800s. Often associated with England's working class, this dialect replaces certain words with expressions that rhyme.
Speakers may want to set themselves apart from people who don't understand the dialect, or to simply carry on a type of oral tradition. Some people speculate that criminals created expressions to pass on their messages in a type of code and thus to hide them from the police.
Most of the rhyming slang terms use more than one word. Once the expression has become established, a shortened form of it is sometimes used. "Porky pies", for example, is now commonly shortened to just the word "porkies".
Here are a few more rhyming slang expressions well known to all London black-cab drivers:
- Adam and Eve = believe
- apple and pears = stairs
- bull and cow = a row
- boat race = face
- bread and honey = money
- loaf of bread = head
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SYNONYMS
lie, fib, not tell the truth
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SMUGGLE OWAD INTO YOUR CONVERSATION TODAY
but only with a Londoner :-)
"The competition have been telling porkies about our new product."
noun phrase
(tell) a porky (also porky-pie) = a lie
(Oxford Dictionary)
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A pork pie is a traditional English dish, a pastry filled with chopped pork. The expression "porky-pies" means "lies" in rhyming slang, often referred to as Cockney rhyming slang.
Rhyming slang originated in London in Victorian England in the early to mid-1800s. Often associated with England's working class, this dialect replaces certain words with expressions that rhyme.
Speakers may want to set themselves apart from people who don't understand the dialect, or to simply carry on a type of oral tradition. Some people speculate that criminals created expressions to pass on their messages in a type of code and thus to hide them from the police.
Most of the rhyming slang terms use more than one word. Once the expression has become established, a shortened form of it is sometimes used. "Porky pies", for example, is now commonly shortened to just the word "porkies".
Here are a few more rhyming slang expressions well known to all London black-cab drivers:
- Adam and Eve = believe
- apple and pears = stairs
- bull and cow = a row
- boat race = face
- bread and honey = money
- loaf of bread = head
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SYNONYMS
lie, fib, not tell the truth
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SMUGGLE OWAD INTO YOUR CONVERSATION TODAY
but only with a Londoner :-)
"The competition have been telling porkies about our new product."
