>>>>>>By Cheddar I chain you've got it! :-)
>>>>
>>>>As in the "Cheddar Gorge" in England (where cheddar cheese comes from).
>>>>
>>>
>>>Whoops, I translated it as "By jeez, I think you've got it!"
>>
>>lol
>>
>>But the expression "By George I think she's got it!" from My Fair Lady is so well known I'd've though this one was obvious, unless you've never heard of the famous UK landscape (But then who's heard of the Canadian Shield over here, who isn't a geologist?)
>
>Watch who you're calling 'she', mister!

I meant to say "allowing for my variation" :-)

>
>>
>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>BTW "Stink" has always been "pen and"
>>>
>>>>>>"Daisies" = boots (Daisy roots)
>>>>>
>>>>>Generally, that would only work on one of your countrymen. Although didn't the phrase "Daisy roots" come up in a song by Lonnie Donnegan somewhere?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Aye, in "My ole man's a dustman"
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>"Dog an'" = phone
>>>>>
>>>>>This one I'm not sure of. I think of Dog and Pony - so Pony: Phone? Either this is a major stretch, or I'm missing the link.
>>>>
>>>>bone
>>>
>>>Oh, I've never really heard "Dog and bone" as a 'phrase' before. Dog bone, sort of, but not Dog and bone. I'd have thought 'Soup' would have been a better choice.
>>
>>Soup? Soup spoon? bowl? kitchen? course? Nah, I can't see it. Anyway, dog 'n' bone is the "official" RS for phone.
>
>Soup bone. Seems a natural, or don't you guys over the pond use soup bones?

Now that is an art that's dying out. I remember my nan boiling up ham bones to make what I used to call "hairy soup" (cos of the tickly texture in the mouth). However, we as a modern, semi-vegatarian, nuclear family rarely have a ham. We do boil up the chicken carcasse for stock, mind. However, the word-associate with soup to me is spoon.

Anyway, someone's actually compiled a list of them here:

http://www.aldertons.com/english-.htm

Note "Dog and Bone" is there.

...