What does bees and honey. Slang expressions of the week: "money" slang


I know I was a fool when I first met you, girl
But once I was a danger to myself
But one look at you and all that was changed, girl
I knew in my heart I "d been saved


Because I Iove to love you
And yes, I love to love you the way that I do
You were always on my mind
So I say it one more time
I love you
I love you


Once I thought that life was just a wasteland
Friends and power were all I craved
One look at you and I was changed, girl
I know in my heart I had been saved


Because I love to love you
You got me tied down, my honey bee
And yes, I love to love you the way I do
You were always on my mind
So I say it one more time
I love you
I love you

Lyrics of the Bee

[Verse 1]
I know the first time we met I was a fool
Then I was a danger even to myself.
But as soon as I saw you everything changed, baby
I realized with all my heart that I was saved.

[Chorus]

You are always on my mind.
So I'll say it again:
I love you.
I love you.

[Verse 2]
I once thought that life was a swamp.
Friends and power were all I wanted.
But as soon as I saw you, I changed, baby.
I understand with all my heart that I am saved.

[Chorus]
Because I love to love you.
You have tamed me, my bee.
And yes, I love the way I love you.
You are always on my mind.
So I'll say it again:
I love you.
I love you.

More meanings of the word and translation of HONEY BEE from English into Russian in English-Russian dictionaries.
What is the translation of HONEY BEE from Russian into English in Russian-English dictionaries.

More meanings of this word and English-Russian, Russian-English translations for HONEY BEE in dictionaries.

  • HONEY-BEE
    Large English-Russian Dictionary
  • HONEY-BEE - Bee
  • HONEY-BEE - Woman's uterus
    American English-Russian Dictionary
  • HONEY BEE - Honey Bee
    American English-Russian Dictionary
  • HONEY-BEE - _n. (worker) bee
    English-Russian-English Dictionary of General Vocabulary - Collection of the best dictionaries
  • HONEY-BEE - (working) bee
    Tiger English-Russian dictionary
  • HONEY-BEE - noun (worker) bee
    English-Russian Dictionary of General Vocabulary
  • HONEY-BEE - noun (worker) bee
    English-Russian Dictionary of General Vocabulary
  • HONEY BEE - honey bee, domestic bee (Apis mellifera)
    New English-Russian Dictionary of Biology
  • HONEY-BEE - _n. (worker) bee
    Muller's English-Russian Dictionary - 24th edition
  • HONEY-BEE - n. (worker) bee
    Müller's English-Russian Dictionary - bed edition
  • HONEY-BEE - (working) bee
    English-Russian additional dictionary
  • HONEY-BEE - _n. (worker) bee
    Muller's English-Russian Dictionary
  • HONEY-BEE - (working) bee
    Morteza English-Russian Dictionary
  • HONEY-BEE - n (working) bee
    English-Russian dictionary - Korolev
  • HONEY-BEE - noun (worker) bee n (worker) bee
    New Comprehensive English-Russian Dictionary
  • HONEY - Sweet, viscous liquid food, golden in color, produced in the honey sacs of various bees from the nectar of flowers. ...
    English Dictionary Britannica
  • BEE - Any of some 20,000 insect species belonging to the superfamily Apoidea (order Hymenoptera), including the familiar bumblebee. Adults range ...
    English Dictionary Britannica
  • HONEY - I. ˈhənē, -ni noun (plural hon · eys or hon · ies -nēz, -niz) Etymology: Middle English hony, from Old English hunig; akin ...
  • BEE - I. ˈbē noun (-s) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English, from Old English bēo; akin to Old High ...
    Webster "s New International English Dictionary
  • BEE - (n.) A neighborly gathering of people who engage in united labor for the benefit of an individual or family; as, ...
    Webster English Dictionary
  • BEE - (n.) A neighborly gathering of people who engage in united labor for the benefit of an individual or ...
    Webster "s Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
  • HONEY - - honeyful, adj. - honeyless, adj. - honeylike, adj. / hun "ee /, n., pl. honeys, adj., ...
  • BEE - bee 1 - beelike, adj. / bee /, n. 1.any hymenopterous insect of the superfamily Apoidea, including social and ...
    Random House Webster "s Unabridged English Dictionary
  • HONEY - adj. of honey, resembling honey; sweet; containing honey
  • BEE - n. type of flying insect; gathering for the purpose of carrying out a certain task (quilting bee, spelling bee, etc.)
    Explanatory Dictionary of the English Language - Edited by bed
  • HONEY - I. ˈhə-nē noun (plural honeys) Etymology: Middle English hony, from Old English hunig; akin to Old High German ...
  • BEE - I. ˈbē noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English bēo; akin to Old High German bīa bee, Old Irish bech, ...
    Merriam-Webster "s Collegiate English vocabulary
  • HONEY - noun sweet one; - a term of endearment. 2.honey noun that which is sweet or pleasant, like honey. 3. ...
    Webster English vocab
  • BEE - p.p. of be; - used for been. 2. bee · noun pieces of hard wood bolted to the sides of the ...
    Webster English vocab
  • HONEY - n, pl honeys (bef. 12c) 1 ...
  • BEE - n (bef. 12c) 1: honeybee; broadly:…
    Merriam-Webster English vocab
  • HONEY - sweet, viscous liquid food, dark golden in color, produced in the honey sacs of various bees from the nectar of ...
    Britannica English vocabulary
  • HONEY - honey, Honey BrE AmE ˈhʌn i ▷ honey | ed d ▷ honey | s z
  • BEE - bee BrE Ame biː ▷ bees, bee "s biːz ˌ bee" s ˈ knees ˈ bee sting
    Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
  • HONEY - / ˈhʌni; NAmE / noun 1. [U] a sweet sticky yellow substance made by bees that is spread ...
  • BEE - / biː; NAmE / noun 1.a black and yellow flying insect that can sting. Bees live in large groups ...
    Oxford Advanced Learner "s English Dictionary
  • BEE - bee / biː / BrE AmE noun [Language: Old English; Origin: beo] 1. a black and yellow ...
    Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  • HONEY
  • BEE
    Basic English Conversational Dictionary
  • HONEY - n. (pl. -eys) 1 a sweet sticky yellowish fluid made by bees and other insects from nectar collected from flowers. ...
  • BEE - n. 1 any four-winged insect of the superfamily Apoidea which collects nectar and pollen, produces wax and honey, and lives ...
    Concise Oxford English Dictionary
  • HONEY - n. (pl. -eys) 1.a sweet sticky yellowish fluid made by bees and other insects from nectar collected from flowers. ...
    Oxford English vocab
  • BEE - n.1 any four-winged insect of the superfamily Apoidea which collects nectar and pollen, produces wax and honey, and lives in…
    Oxford English vocab
  • HONEY - (honeys) 1. Honey is a sweet, sticky, yellowish substance that is made by bees. N-VAR 2. You call someone ...
  • BEE - (bees) 1. A bee is an insect with a yellow-and-black striped body that makes a buzzing noise as it ...
    Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner "s English Dictionary
  • HONEY - (~ s) 1. Honey is a sweet, sticky, yellowish substance that is made by bees. N-VAR 2. You call someone ~ ...
    Collins COBUILD - Explanatory Dictionary of English for Language Learners
  • HONEY - noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE clear ▪ Simmer for about 5 minutes until the sugar has dissolved, then stir ...
  • BEE - noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES bee sting ▪ a bee sting spelling bee COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE africanized ▪…
    Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
  • HONEY - (PERSON) [C] - a pleasant personShe "s / He" sa real honey.It "s great to see you, honey / John honey / Mary honey. [C] - a flying insect which has a yellow and black body and four transparent wings. There are ...
    Cambridge English vocab

Everyone knows that England is the birthplace of the classic English language. However, not everyone knows that there is also London slang in this country, which not even every Englishman can make out. But if you speak like a Cockney, then you can easily understand what these sentences are about!

Have you ever gone for a ‘cuff link’ at the local ‘bath tub’ and forgotten your ‘bees and honey’? How about taken the ‘London fog’ for a ‘ball of chalk’ but got totally ‘Kate Mossed’ in the ‘do me goods’?

Well, if the meaning of these phrases is still not clear to you, then we suggest together to understand the most common phrases used by Cockney.

First, let's define who the Cockney are. Cockney is a scornfully derisive nickname for a London-born, middle-class and lower-class citizen.

What is cockney slang?

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London slang is known for the rhyme and melody of phrases in a sentence. Historians confirm that this manner of speaking originated in the middle of the 19th century in the eastern part. However, the reasons for its appearance are inaccurate. Some suggest that it all started with a word game among the residents of the eastern districts of the capital. Others argue that the slang was invented by the local population to confuse police and visitors. One thing is clear - without knowing the meaning of the phrases, it is practically impossible to understand the Cockney conversation!

If you want to learn to speak London, instead of one word, you have to learn the corresponding phrases. They usually consist of two words, and, most importantly, they must necessarily rhyme with the original word! For example:

Apples and Pears - stairs -stairs or steps: “Let’s get you up those apples and pears

Most often, such phrases reflect trends in British culture or refer to famous personalities. For example, for the English word ‘wrong’, the Cockney uses the first and last name of a popular radio DJ. In conversation, it looks like this:

Pete Tong wrong - wrong or wrong: Its all gone Pete Tong !”

If you want to diversify your English speech with bright and fresh phrases, you should definitely pay attention to this slang. Not only will you learn more about British pop culture and current topics, but you will also become your own among the native Londoners.

Examples of the use of cockney slang in films and shows

If you have ever watched English comedy shows, you have most likely come across strange phrases that at first glance do not make any sense. These rhymed phrases help make even the most boring topic funny (although, of course, not all of us find English humor funny). For example, the sketch below The Two Ronnies consists almost entirely of the London dialect. Can you make out what it is about?

Many British actors have become famous for their London accent and the frequency of its use in films. Watch an episode of a famous movie Alfie, in which Michael Caine speaks like a cockney.

London slang in the most common phrases:

1. Barney Rubble - trouble -problem: “Are you making Barney rubble again? ”

2. Baked Bean - Queen -queen: “Look who’s on TV, it’s the baked bean!”

3. Butcher's Hook - look -noun . sight: “Let’s take a quick baker's hook

4. Rabbit and pork - talk -conversation: “We sat for a while and had a good old Rabbit and Pork

5. Pirates of Penzance - pants -pants or pants: “I need some more Pirates of penzance

6. Pig's ear - beer -beer: “I think I owe you a pig's ear

7. Sausage and Mash - cash (money) -money: “I forgot all my sausage and mash!”

8. Trouble and strife - wife -wife: “I had an argument with the trouble and strife last night "

9. Dog and bone - phone -telephone: “What’s that ringing? Is it the dog and bone?”

10. Half-inch - pinch (steal) -steal: “I think someone’s half-inched my wallet! ”

An exercise

Try to guess the meaning of the phrases used in the sentences at the beginning of this article. You can check the correctness of your answers in.

As soon as money is not called in Russian: “green”, “grandmother”, “killed raccoons”, “fifty dollars”, “chervonets”, “stolnik”, “lemon”, “piece”, “mower”.

English slang does not lag behind Russian in the generation of more and more new designations for money. It is believed that more slang words exist only for booze and girls. Since neither the first nor the second can be obtained without money, you should carefully study the British and American "money" slang.

Rhino - in the UK, cash (eng. ready money) for at least three centuries in everyday communication are called rhino... According to one theory, this slang word comes from the meaning of the English idiom "to pay through the nose" - "overpay, pay a lot of money." Root rhino- came to English from Greek and means "nose" (remember rhinoceros - rhino). The ways of the spoken language are inscrutable, so the "Greek nose" and "idiomatic nose" have merged into one slang word.

Readies \u003d cash. Comes from the already mentioned ready money - cash that is always at hand.

Bees (bees and honey) \u003d money. The British owe this slang word to the cockney rhymed slang that appeared in London's East End in the 16th century. Cockney slang is a kind of code in which an ordinary word is replaced with a whole or abbreviated form of a phrase that rhymes with this word. Another slang name for money - bread - comes from the second version of this rhyme - 'bread and honey' \u003d money. Another slang term for money - dough (literally "dough") - also happened because of the "bread" associations.

Dosh - slang designation of the amount of money, for example, in order to have fun on a Friday night. Derived from a slang concept doss-house - very cheap hostel. Word doss appeared in England during the time of Elizabeth I and meant a bed with a straw mattress in an overnight house.

K / k \u003d a thousand (£ 1,000 or $ 1,000). The K symbol for a thousandth of something comes from the Greek prefix kilo- "one thousand".

Filthy lucre - despicable metal, ill-gotten money, from the Latin lucrum "material profit, profit."

Dollar - in British slang singular is used as a synonym for money: "Got any dollar? .." The word itself dollar comes from the German Thaler "thaler". In Low German dialects, it became daler, and in this form it got into English.

Cabbage - not only to Russians, but also to Americans, the rolled hundred dollar bills resemble a head of cabbage. More sophisticated Londoners can use lettuce (lettuce), and Americans - kale (kale).

Greens \u003d money. In the past, bills of not only American, but also British currencies were green. As usual, cockney rhymed slang was also necessary here :: "greengages" (\u003d wages).

Folding / folding stuff / folding green - banknotes that can be folded ( to fold) and put it in your pocket.

Shrapnel (literally "shrapnel") - a lot of little things.

Brass - coppers, small money, trifle. This word entered British slang in the 16th century. The expression “Where there” s muck there ”s brass” is still used with the meaning “If you are not squeamish, you can make money on everything”.

Oner (one-er) - one hundred pounds (£ 100).

Grand - thousand pounds (£ 1000).

Quid - one pound (£ 1). In colloquial speech, this word does not change in numbers: 'Fifteen quid is all I want for it. ",' Could you lend me twenty quid, mate?". This word came to slang at the beginning of the 17th century from the Latin language: quid pro quo - is a phraseological unit usually used in English in the meaning of "quid pro quo" ("give and take", "tit for tat", and "you scratch my back, and I "ll scratch yours").

Jack - one pound (£ 1). The word moved across the ocean from British slang to American and entered such colloquial American expressions as' a piece of jack '- a small change and' to make one "s jack" - make good money.

Nugget - one pound (£ 1). The slang word comes from gold nugget - a gold nugget.

Deuce - two pounds (£ 2). Comes from French deux and Latin duos - "two".

Bender - six pence. The roots of the word go back to the 1800s, when coins were made of pure silver, and to verify their authenticity, it was in the order of things to bend them ( to bend) or even bite: pure silver coins were softer and more bent than counterfeits.

Bob - one shilling. In the past, the word bob was used to refer to pub gatherings in which everyone paid a shilling for the drinks of the whole party.

Chip - one shilling. Comes from chips - chips that are used in betting on horse racing and in gambling.

Deaner / dena / denar / dener - according to various theories, comes from dinar - dinar, the monetary unit of Serbia, as well as a number of countries in Asia and Africa, and from denarius - a denarius, an ancient Roman silver coin.

Pony - 25 pounds (£ 25). In slang, this word appeared in the 1870s, in connection with the British colonization of India. The 25 Indian rupee banknote featured a horse or pony.

The most interesting thing happens when one slang word comes from another. Now 25 pounds is also called macaroni - according to the London Cockney, this is a rhyme to the above pony.

Monkey - £ 500 (£ 500). It appeared in slang in the early 19th century, when Britain was at the height of its colonial rule. According to one version, monkeylike slang pony, comes from the Indian rupees, which depicted animals.

Frogskin (literally "frog skin") - green one dollar banknote.

C-note - a banknote of 100 dollars. C - Roman numeral 100, its Latin designation - centum.

Sawbuck - 10 dollar banknote. According to the Americans, the Roman numeral 10 - X - resembles a goat for sawing wood.

Medza / medzer / medzes / medzies / metzes / midzers \u003d money. The distorted Italian word mezzo is "half."

Loot (literally "loot, loot, trophies") - money, obviously earned dishonestly.

Bung - cash given as a bribe. Derived from Old English pung - pocket, purse.

Wad - a bundle of paper money. If someone is reluctant to part with money, they will not fail to call him “tightwad”.

Mad duckets - a huge amount of money. Slang ducket Is distorted ducat “Ducat”, an ancient coin circulated in Europe since the 12th century.

P.S. The correct answer in the test about the toffee-nosed slang expression, which we talked about, is option A.

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