born within the sound of Bow bells

born within the sound of Bow bells

Refers to those who have a cockney accent. If you are "born within the sound of Bow bells," you are born near St. Mary-le-Bow Church in London's East End. Primarily heard in UK. I have no idea what she said. I guess it's because she was born within the sound of Bow bells, and I can never quite understand a cockney accent.
See also: bell, born, bow, of, sound, within
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • xennial
  • be/be born/be made that way
  • be born that way
  • bred
  • born and bred
  • Were you born in a tent?
  • be born with a silver spoon in your mouth
  • born with a silver spoon in (one's) mouth
  • born with a silver spoon in his or her mouth
  • born with a silver spoon in your mouth
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Ishia Bennison's chatty Nurse (bustling on and off in a tailored suit and fashionable wedgies) is generally convincing, but unsurprisingly Mercutio is played in one of several gender switches by a girl whose accent suggests she was born within the sound of Bow Bells.
I WAS almost born within the sound of Bow Bells, nearly born in Wales, but ended up born in Kent.
But Harrison is instinctively a fighting man and in the rhyming slang of those such as Cook, born within the sound of Bow Bells, two things will happen tomorrow.
Cockneys were born within the sound of Bow Bells, London EC2.
Another woman born within the sound of Bow Bells said that she only ever watched Aussie soaps, and that she had checked that there were no TV licences needed down under.
He has concluded that for all their avowed humanist rejection of a racial hierarchy and dismissal of such crude measures as head size and hair texture to delineate racial difference, the Observers of the masses were still confused about the differences between race and nation and culture, and thus their categorization failed to recognize that if a Jew was born within the sound of Bow Bells that would mean that he or she was a Cockney as well as being a Jewish.
But he was born within the sound of Bow Bells,boasted a manager who brazenly wore a ludicrous Union Jack suit -and openly celebrated his Britishness.
Age 45 Hometown Born within the sound of Bow Bells,London Now resident Chester Marital status Married with two teenage children Education Chemistry degree from Oxford Interests outside work Working with church youth drama and dance groups Favourite holiday destination HawaiiAmbition To create a premier clothing brandBusiness philosophy The harder you work, the luckier you become
Even I was a Muslim for a little bit." And how it was racism that drove him to Islam: "I am a Cockney, born within the sound of Bow Bells. My father was Jamaican but my mother was white from Newcastle.
If Cockneys are born within the sound of Bow Bells, who decides where that is?
Mr Faiers, aged 70, who was made a freeman three years ago, said: "My father was born within the sound of Bow Bells and although he has been dead for many years it is an honour he would have greatly regarded.
She writes: "My granddad Cole went to Coventry at the beginning of the 20th century from the East End of London, he was a real Cockney - born within the sound of Bow Bells. He went in search of work and I think he worked in a foundry.
As a real-life Eastender - I wasn't quite born within the sound of Bow Bells but close enough - it must seem odd that I support a team from North London.
Q I WAS born within the sound of Bow Bells - the bells of St Mary-le-Bow Church in Cheapside - which makes me a cockney.