Sweeney ... slang/phrases... latest!

[amac]

Plenty of slang in last few episodes - know what these mean but don't know where they come from? if rhyming slang?

Dabs - fingerprints
Dyke - lesbian
Sweet as a Nut - perfect, beautiful (are nuts sweet ? not like chocolate?)
Give it a blow - context was to go and test drive a car - blow out the exhaust?
Lying down with dogs - = you stand up with fleas - so you;ll get into 'trouble' ?
In the Boob - in prison?

And a couple i don't know - anyone help here?

It was all the Stone Ginger

Keep a low profile and bent Billy until we are ready (it might have been Brent Billy)


still a few more episodes to go!

thanks

[jno]

dyke is an old one, dating back to the 1930s at least; nobody knows where it came from though my slang dictionary suggests it might possibly derive from hermaphrodite.

[lovejoy]

Stone means completely and is not rhyming slang, for example Johnny Mathis song: I'm stone in love with you means I'm completely in love with you.

Ginger IS cockney slang ( he's a ginger) = ginger beer =***, He is a *** (homosexual)

He's a stone ginger+ he is a complete homosexual

[lovejoy]

Ignore my post amac because of the stupidity of how this site is run my post now makes no sense

[Jabwoy]

"Stone Ginger" means its a certainty ..... Stone Ginger was a racehorse in the 30 's that won every time.....

[Jabwoy]

Stone Ginger means its a certainty.......Stone ginger he will be in the pub tonight = Its a certainty he will be in the pub tonight.......Carter uses this phrase a few times....Stone ginger was the name of a race horse in the 30's that won all its races hence its was certain good bet....