dog and bone

noun

1. slang:rhyming,  a telephone

Example Sentences

Either way, it’s a matter of dog and bone: Each of you is just a different dog with a different bone.

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For one night only villagers were able to enjoy a pint at the Dog and Bone.

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Alright, so I was about to write an article about Windows 10 when I realised I was proper hank marvin, so I got on the dog and bone and belled up my mate Azza.

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Another, in Shepreth, Cambridgeshire, became a temporary pub called - with a nod to cockney rhyming slang - the Dog and Bone in 2011 in protest at another venue, the Plough, closing.

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He wrote thus:— Dog and Bone, Lambeth, May 9th, 1797.

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