Sausage and mash cash

In east London 30 cash machines are giving customers the choice of having instructions in Cockney, a working class dialect of English. In Cockney rhyming slang a common word is replaced by an expression e.g. ‘phone’ becomes ‘dog and bone’.

The cash machine will ask for your Huckleberry Finn (pin) and if you want some sausage and mash (cash). If you do, you have a choice of:

  • speckled hen (ten)
  • horn of plenty (twenty)
  • dirty (thirty)
  • double top (forty)

Can you guess the meaning of: ‘Rosie Lee’ or ‘Gates of Rome’?

Listen Sausage and mash