pork pies
Rhyming slang falsehoods
Pork pies is Cockney rhyming slang for lies: He's telling pork pies.
The phrase shortens to porkies in casual British speech: Don't give me porkies.
Separately, pork pies are the savory British pastry—small raised pies filled with seasoned pork in aspic, eaten cold.
Deliberate untruths
- fibsPetty falsehoods
- rhyming slangSubstitution using sound-alike phrases
- falsehoodDeliberate untrue statement
- untruthA false statement
whopper · tall tale · fib · fabrication · porkies · British slang · dishonesty · deceit
Buttery baked dough
- gelatinCollagen-derived thickening protein
- hand-raisedNurtured manually from infancy
- jellyFruit spread, no seeds
- lardClarified pork fat
crust · cold cuts · butcher · delicacy · buffet · ploughman's lunch · finger food · appetizer
lies
Deliberate untruths
- fibsPetty falsehoods
- rhyming slangSubstitution using sound-alike phrases
- falsehoodDeliberate untrue statement
untruth · whopper · tall tale · fib · fabrication · porkies · British slang · dishonesty · deceit · misrepresentation
pastry
Buttery baked dough
- gelatinCollagen-derived thickening protein
- hand-raisedNurtured manually from infancy
- jellyFruit spread, no seeds
lard · crust · cold cuts · butcher · delicacy · buffet · ploughman's lunch · finger food · appetizer · savoury
- Yorkshire foodsYorkshire pudding, parkin
- British foodfish and chips, full English, bangers and mash, Sunday roast, roast dinner