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bees and honey noun money UK, 1892 Rhyming slang.- I’ll be getting me greengages [wages] today. Reckon I’ll have enough bees and honey for a bit of a blowout. — The Sweeney, p. 6, 1976
- [B]eing very short of bees and honey, and unable to pay the Burton-on-Trent[.] — Ronnie Barker, Fletcher’s Book of Rhyming Slang, p. 25, 1979
- It’s not my money and the bloke who I put it on for is going to be very angry when I arrive without the bees and honey. — Clive Galea, Slipper, p. 183, 1988
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