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I happened upon the phrase dead horse, which is supposedly rhyming slang for tomato sauce (as in "don't forget to add the dead horse to your pasta"?!).
assuming this is so, I must ask:
is horse pronounced 'hawse' OR is sauce pronounced 'sorce'??
[this is a dead tart]
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is horse pronounced 'hawse' OR is sauce pronounced 'sorce'??
Or do they meet in the middle somewhere?
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"Don't change horses in the middle of the Pond."
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Given that rhyming slang is Cockney I would guess source for sauce
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a horse is a hoarse, of course of corse and know won can talk two a whorse of cause, unless of course, that horse is the famous Mr Ed
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"dead tart"--  ll: What'd you say? I think something must be wrong with my ears. ;-)
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dead horse, which is supposedly rhyming slang for tomato sauce
That's a new one to me and somehow it doesn't seem 'in period' for cockney rhyming slang - but I guess someone's still making them up, maybe in other places too.
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I dunno about rhyming slang but my British friend confirmed when we were discussing rhymes a long time ago that "dead horse" and "tomato sauce" rhyme. He pronounced them both with the same "aw" sound you hear when a Brit says "auxiliary". He also said to-mah-to, not to-may-to.
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Pooh-Bah
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He also said to-mah-to, not to-may-to.
As does everyone, I thought ...
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We're not going to break into song here, are we?  Edit: I just added that so those of us trying to imagine him saying it would get the whole thing right.
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