The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #49260   Message #743772
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
07-Jul-02 - 09:56 AM
Thread Name: Folklore: Put up your dukes
Subject: RE: Put up your dukes
Backslang is more cmmon than people realise - for example "cool it" is probably from the backslang for "look". With both backslang and rhyming slang, the expressions often pass into the language so we often use them without having any idea that they fall into one of these categories.