Multilingual Rhyming Slang

[Peter Richardson]

Do you mean stuff like "Donkey field mouse" for "Danke vielmals"? That
should be easy to find. I doubt, though, that there's any significant
connection with immigrants' experiences.

PR

On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, Philip Trauring wrote:

> I'm curious if anything has been written on multilingual rhyming slang.
>
> I would imagine there were many such phrases introduced in America by
> immigrants in the past century. One which jumps to mind is 'Cashmere
> and Togas' - which sounds like 'Kish mir in Tuchis' - Yiddish slang
> which parallels directly with the English phrase "Kiss my &%$".
>
> Anyone know of other similar phrases from other languages?
>
> Philip Trauring
>