[Info-vax] Oz/Cockney rhyming slang Was: Re: How about RdB for x86 VMS?

[Paul Sture]

On 2014-09-09, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply
<helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de> wrote:
> In article <49248a87-8f89-4bc5-a730-a137a32e2d66 at googlegroups.com>,
> mcleanjoh at gmail.com writes: 
>
>> Perhaps folk outside Oz don't understand this...
>> 
>> Buckleys & Nunn was a large department store in Melbourne, Australia,
>> for decades, closing I believe, in the 1960's.
>> 
>> "Buckleys" is therefore short for "Buckleys and Nunn" and means "none".
>> Often said in response to a question about the chances of something
>> happening.
>
> Ozzy Cockney rhyming slang.

Not a surprise really.  If you come across a bunch of Australians and
Cockneys together it's not hard to hear the Cockney heritage in Australian
accents.

> Cockney rhyming slang is so bizarre it's good, once one gets used to it. 
> These days, one can get lots of info from the innertubes, so go have a 
> butcher's.

But it gets old pretty quickly when you hear the same few phrases time and
again.

The English language has beaten me to that observation with the word
"hackneyed". Hackney (as in Hackney Cabs aka London Taxis) is in the area
defined as the East End of London.

OED entry:

hackneyed |ˈhaknɪd|
adjective
(of a phrase or idea) having been overused; unoriginal and trite:
hackneyed old sayings.

;-)

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