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Car Boot sale

A public market where people sell (usually) unwanted household items, but you can also get homegrown plants and similar. They are usually held on a Sunday. You can get some genuine bargains, if you’re lucky and it’s a good neighbourhood! There are diehard car-booters who will go every Sunday, getting there first thing to race around trying to find antiques.

Cob

A bread roll.

Cockney Rhyming Slang

A form of slang where the second word of the given phrase rhymes with the intended word, but only the first word of the phrase is used.

Apples and pears = stairs. (Old) Dog and bone = phone Trouble and strife = wife Septic tank = yank (American. A good indication of how well we’re received by some).

“I called up the trouble on the old dog but she’d already gone up the apples to bed”.

Coriander

Cilantro

Courgette

Zucchini







 
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