apples and pears
Rhyming slang stairs
Apples and pears is Cockney rhyming slang for stairs.
The phrase originated in London's East End, where rhyming slang substitutes a rhyming phrase for a common word: I'm going up the apples and pears to bed.
Often shortened to just apples: Mind the apples, they're steep.
- Granny SmithTart green apple cultivar
- Golden DeliciousYellow-green apple cultivar
- orchardFruit tree plantation
- redPrimary color, warm
- skinBody's outer layer
green · East End · cider · fruit salad · fruit bowl · London · Adam and Eve · harvest · barrow · market stall · core · rhyming slang · fruit · ripe · peel · ladder · picking · bruised
- British slangblag, bloke, bodge, blagger, bobby
- Cockney slangboat race, mince pies, porky pies, rhyming slang, bread and honey
- East EndEast End, Bow Bells, Tower Hamlets, Whitechapel, cockney
- London slanginnit, bruv, fam, roadman, bare
- counting rhymeseeny meeny, sky blue, red white blue
direction of vertical movement
apples and pearsdownstairs
On a lower floor
going down · descending · basement · cellar · the bottom
type of vertical conveyance
apples and pearslift
Mechanism for vertical transport
elevator · escalator · ramp · dumbwaiter
apple, pear, stairs, apples, pears, crabapple, applewood, applecart, applejack