Ted Lasso (2020)/S1E1 · Pilot/Ted's welcome basket: The Ultimate Cockney Geezer's Guide to Rhyming Slang
Ted Lasso · Season 1, Episode 1, "Pilot"
Ted's welcome basket: The Ultimate Cockney Geezer's Guide to Rhyming Slang
Ted Lasso (Jason Sudeikis) · Ted's flat
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What it tells you
Ted's welcome basket in London comes with a guide to Cockney rhyming slang. Book Riot notes the card is addressed to Coach Tim Lasso. The club got the name wrong and the dialect right.
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The Ultimate Cockney Geezer's Guide to Rhyming Slang
Geoff Tibballs · 1998 · nonfiction
Geoff Tibballs's guide to the East London habit of swapping a word for a phrase that rhymes with it, then dropping the rhyme. Apples and pears means stairs. It is the only book in the basket that would actually help him at the pub.
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