cheese and kisses

cheese and kisses

Wife. ("Cheese and kisses" rhymes with "missus.") Primarily heard in Australia. A: "Where are you two going on your trip?" B: "Oh, the cheese and kisses and I will be off on an island getaway!"
See also: and, cheese, kiss
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • chip
  • chips
  • dirty weekend
  • a dirty weekend
  • weekend
  • up on (one's) ear
  • Two Bob
  • cheese off
  • cheese someone off
  • cheesed off
References in periodicals archive
Cheese (caseus) in Australian slang (so Eric Partridge) stands for wife (Cochneyesque rhyming slang, cheese and kisses = 'missus').