bread and honey
Rhyming slang currency
Bread and honey is Cockney rhyming slang for money: I haven't got the bread and honey to pay for that.
The phrase is typically shortened to just bread in casual use, which is how bread became widespread slang for money even outside London.
- toastHeated bread; glass-raising honor
- toast and jamBrowned bread with fruit spread
- butterSolid fat from cream
- peanut butterPaste from ground gourds
- jamCooked fruit spread
bees · bee hive · sweetness · comb · golden · sticky · spread · loaf · fresh baked · crust · drizzle · nectar · hive · warm · breakfast · morning tea · slice · dough
- Cockney slangapples and pears, boat race, mince pies, porky pies, rhyming slang
- London slanginnit, bruv, fam, roadman, bare
financial state
bread and honeypoverty
Severe lack of resources
skint · broke · penniless · destitution · flat broke
value/worth
bread and honeyworthlessness
Lack of any value
nothing · zilch · sweet FA · diddly squat · bupkis
bread, honey, breads, breaded, breading, breadcrumb, breadbox, honeyed, honeys