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Cape of Good Hope noun- soap UK, 1925
Rhyming slang, based on the South African headland; sometimes shortened to “cape”. - [B]eing too poor to purchase any Cape of Good Hope, his bushel and peck [the neck] was extremely two-thirty [dirty]. — Ronnie Barker, Fletcher’s Book of Rhyming Slang, p. 25, 1979
- the Pope UK
Rhyming slang. - [T]he Cape of Good Hope was well pleased with the result. — Andrew Nickolds, Back to Basics, p. 163, 1994
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