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double entendre 

lit. from the French meaning 'double meaning.' a phrase or saying that has another connotation apart from the literal, almost always sexual in nature. A staple of the British 'carry on' series of films of thr 1960s and 70s, and the most excellent 'Bottom' TV show of the early 90s on the BBC
Eddie: Hang on, hang on hang on hang on. I've got your real present here.
Richie: It's a piece of paper. It is a small piece of paper.
Eddie: Read it.
Richie: "Madame Swish, three-thirty." Oh! Eddie! You haven't? Oh, what a pal you are. "Madame Swish". Ooh-err! Hohh, God, at last I'm really going to do it. And on my birthday as well! Ohhhggh, I wonder what she's like?
Eddie: She's a dead cert mate, a real stayer.
Richie:Really?
Eddie:Yeah, she'll come first.
Richie: What, before me? Good grief, that's quick. So she'll think I'm
great! Oh, what a pal you are! And it's all paid for?
Eddie: Um, not exactly, I need a tenner.
Richie: A tenner. Right. That's quite cheap, isn't it?
Eddie: Er, well, no, in that case it's a tenner each way.
Richie: Well, how many ways are there?
Eddie: Well, you'll come first, second or third, won't you?
Richie: Well how many people are going to be there?
Eddie: Well, a few thousand.
Richie: What?
Eddie: Well it's Kempton.
Richie:Kempton? I can't get down to Kempton by three-thirty!
Eddie: You don't have to mate, it'll be on the telly!
Richie: They're going to televise it? Well what if my auntie's watching?
Eddie: Well what's illegal about betting on a horse?
Richie: A horse?
Eddie: Yeah.
Richie: Madame Swish is, is, is a horse?
Eddie: Yeah! Well what did you think it was?
Richie: Oh no, nothing, nothing. Just checking.
Eddie:I have given you a red hot tip.
Richie: (looks at his crotch) I know, and there's nothing I can do about it now, is there!
double entendre by Mike Read April 17, 2004

Dropping the Soap 

why cockney wanker'comedian' Michael Barrymore wishes he'd gone to jail after that bloke drowned in his swimming pool.
awight! I couldn't 'ardly walk after Dropping the Soap in G wing sharrers (trans: showers), guvnah, leave it aht, do what, you're 'aving a laugh!
Dropping the Soap by mike read August 13, 2003
annoying catchphrase of the now disgraced cockney 'entertainer' Michael Barrymore
awight at the back!
awight by mike read August 13, 2003
something for keeping milk in
nice jugs there, Daisy
Jugs by mike read August 13, 2003

mother in law

your wife's mother. a terrifying insight into what awaits you in 25 years time.
the wife's mother came around yesterday. I knew it was her as soon as she knocked on the door: all the mice threw themselvess onto the traps.
mother in law by mike read August 13, 2003

sock cooker 

shameless little tramp who cooks her husband's socks at any available opportunity
sock cooker by mike read August 13, 2003

cor blimey 

cor blimey arthur, aren't you garring (trans: going) dahn va car lot?
cor blimey by mike read August 7, 2003