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china
noun- a friend, a mate UK, 1880
Rhyming slang for CHINA PLATE. Now generally used as a stock idiom: “me old china plate.” Also variant “chiner.” - “Kevin,” he said dully, “come on, china. We’d better get them moving. — T. A.G. Hungerford, The Ridge and the River, p. 160, 1952
- Toby was an old china of mine. — Charles Raven, Underworld Nights, p. 178, 1956
- Never let it be said we let down our old china. — Ray Slattery, Mobbs’ Mob, p. 33, 1966
- It’s champers on the house, me old china. — Frank Hardy, The Outcasts of Foolgarah, p. 18, 1971
- Cor, the currant [sun]’s ‘ot today, Oates, me old China. — The Sweeney, p. 6, 1976
- — Jim Ramsay, Cop It Sweet!, p. 22, 1977
- — Ryan Aven-Bray, Ridgey Didge Oz Jack Lang, p. 22, 1983
- So what is it? Chinas? — Kathy Lette, Girls’ Night Out, p. 174, 1987
- Me ole china plate, I knew you’d come! — Tim Winton Lockie Leonard, p. 191, 1997
- For you, Les, me old china plate, it’s a pleasure. — Robert G. Barrett, TheWind and the Monkey, p. 4, 1999
- You might have put the wind up Father Shelley and his china, but I’m not quaking. — Christopher Brookmyre, Boiling a Frog, p. 161, 2000
- teeth; false teeth US, 1942
- — John R. Armore and Joseph D. Wolfe, Dictionary of Desperation, p. 24, 1976
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