Friend A: You just bought a gold watch from the street vendor for 100 quid?
Friend B: Yeah, mate, nice watch, isn't it?
Friend A: Eh, boy, you've been done up like a kipper!
Friend B: Yeah, mate, nice watch, isn't it?
Friend A: Eh, boy, you've been done up like a kipper!
by ripeness November 09, 2012
Legend: "Want to buy a snowboard?"
Kipper: "sure, how much mate?"
Legend: "£300?"
Kipper: "Awesome"
Legend: "ahh only cost me £200, done you like a kipper!"
Kipper: "Where does that saying come from anyway?"
Legend: "From me when I sold you a snowboard!"
Kipper: "sure, how much mate?"
Legend: "£300?"
Kipper: "Awesome"
Legend: "ahh only cost me £200, done you like a kipper!"
Kipper: "Where does that saying come from anyway?"
Legend: "From me when I sold you a snowboard!"
by theRealPhantomPleaseStandUp January 12, 2015
Done up/stiched up like a kipper, surely takes it's meaning from the term red herring, which means to mislead or distract from an important issue, in a trickster style.
A Red Herring, in the literal sense, is a particularly strong smelling fish called a Kipper that has turned a red colour following the smoking process traditionally used to preserve it.
Therefore, to be done or stiched up like a kipper, clearly means to be duped or tricked by false information that was there for all to see, (in hindsight).
A Red Herring, in the literal sense, is a particularly strong smelling fish called a Kipper that has turned a red colour following the smoking process traditionally used to preserve it.
Therefore, to be done or stiched up like a kipper, clearly means to be duped or tricked by false information that was there for all to see, (in hindsight).
For example: when someone purchases an item they believe to be far superior to what it turns out to be, based on the persuasion and false information by the seller.
He was done up like a kipper when he bought that car. Meaning the car was a pile of s*** and he was tricked when he payed top dollar for it.
He was done up like a kipper when he bought that car. Meaning the car was a pile of s*** and he was tricked when he payed top dollar for it.
by squeeze163 August 04, 2016
by Earl Montmorency Grey July 05, 2005
Usually uttered at suburban dinner parties post drinks, one of the more drunk males may suggest a game of “Hunt the Kipper” where a blindfolded male may engage in this form of olfactory “hide and seek” seeking out the smelliest fanny in the vicinity.
by Dry Dock D. February 06, 2024
by Summer-E January 14, 2021
Racial slur used against white people. Very commonly used against white people who publicly act like they're not racist, and are fighting for minorities, when in reality they are actually racist on the inside.
by moonbutch October 28, 2018