Some examples of rhyming slang

[Laurence Horn]

So in general, it's SWS, where the second strong (or stressed) syllable is the intended referent ("phone"), SWS is a familiar collocation ("dog and bone") rhyming with it, and the first strong syllable is the resultant expression ("dog").  One outlier is "titfer" for "hat", where the pattern would predict a different outcome.  Hmmm.

(Curious that the locus classicus is not exemplified here:  "wife" > "trouble and strife" > "trouble".)

LH

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