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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

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.

fanny like a Turkish butcher's shop window 

A well-used, ill-kept monstrosity of a quim that wouldn’t look out of place on either a Picasso painting or on the side of a rugby player’s head. The resemblance to a sack of offal is accompanied by a smell that can only be described as “like Captain Birdseye’s arse”.
"Fuck me Colin, she had a fanny like a Turkish butcher's shop window! Couldn't make head nor tail of the bastard"

"Serves her right for having seven kids”

open up a butcher shop 

When two people are going to have a disagreement. As in, "there's enough beef between us to open up a butcher shop".
Mike: Oh shit, Bobby stole Jimmy's girl.
Dan: Those guys are going to open up a butcher shop.