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Is this cockney rhyming slang?

I'm watching The Bank Job at the moment (it's rubbish) and one of the characters used the phrase 'or it'll all go to custard'. Is this rhyming slang, and what does it mean?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Frankly, I have no idea! I would assume the speaker means that "it", whatever that may be, may go lumpy and undesirable?

    What I do like is the fact that you can write English properly, thumbs up! If I could thumbs up questions, of course!

  • 1 decade ago

    In Cockney Rhyming Slang custrad usually refers to custard and jelly = telly but this does not seem appropriate.

    An alternative is custard tart = heart or sweetheart but again this does not seem right

    Probable is custard cream (a type of biscuit) = dream i.e. it is not going to work out.

    I have not seen the film but was the character Australian? If so, it could be Australian Slang for Pimples or Spots (from the colour of the pus)

  • 1 decade ago

    These are cockney rhyming slang

    Apples and pears = stairs

    Whistle and flute = suit

    dog and bone = phone

    I don't think it'll all go to custard means it will do not good

    Like 'all go sour' but these are not cockney slang

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    ahhhh i love cockney slang its so fit!!! give me a cockney geeza any day!

    sorry that doesnt really answer ur question...just wanted to show appreciation for cockney lads!

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