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a butchcher's

a look around, to check out an area
Right, lets have a butchers before the shooters show.
a butchcher's by auto February 13, 2005

fancy a butcher's

Comes from cockney rhyming English, the street slang of 18 century London crooks. Fancy a look? look rhymes with (butchers) hook.
I've some stereos. Fancy a butchers, me ol china?
fancy a butcher's by Hermes January 15, 2005

fancy a butcher's? 

Shortened version of an old Cockney slang term "Fancy a butcher's hook?", meaning " would you like to take a look?"
fancy a butcher's? by ams01 January 27, 2005

as slippery as a butcher's prick 

an expression from New Zealand:
extremely slippery, treacherously slippery
difficult to pick up or hold because it is slippery
drive carefully, the road is as slippery as a butcher's prick

watch that guy, he's as slippery as a butchers prick

a butcher's 

Cockney rhyming slang -- a butcher's hook, rhymes with look. The slang gets trickey in use as it is usually truncated. Apples and pears becomes apples, but refers to stairs.
I went and had a butcher's at that new café
a butcher's by Fueltank September 27, 2005

happy as a dog in a butcher's shop 

Extremely happy, because one's goals have been attained, one's dreams have been fulfilled and because present happiness is expected to linger on and on...
He married his teenage love. He's happy as a dog in a butcher's shop.