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Farmer Giles; farmers
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haemorrhoids UK
Rhyming slang for “piles”. Used in Australia and the UK.- — Mary Durack, Keep Him My Country, p. 351, 1955
- The late Monsewer Eddie Gray, in drag as a gypsy clairvoyant, used to invite questions from the audience... more accurately, planted Moulin Rouges–stooges–and to the query “How would you help the farmers?” he replied, “I’m a fortune-teller not a chemist.” — Red Daniells, 1980
- [W]hen Mo complains bitterly in EastEnders (BBC1) about her farmers, they are not, as I thought, her farmer’s onions/bunions. Rather, her farmer Giles. — The Guardian, p. 22, 10 June 2003
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