“My girlfriend said I wasn’t a true cockney, so I pushed her down the apples and oranges”
“Apples and pears” is cockney rhyming slang for “stairs.” A joke was posted on Twitter by BarryNeaves on May 12, 2013:
“My girlfriend said I was a rubbish cockney, so I pushed her down the apples and oranges! Lol.”
“My mate said I wasn’t a true cockney, so I pushed him down the apples and oranges….” was posted on Twitter by The Dad Joke Man on August 19, 2018.
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Max Laughton
@maxlaughton
People keep saying “comparing apples and pears” rather than “apples and oranges” in my journalism class. Cockney jerks.
10:34 PM - 9 Oct 2011
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BarryNeaves
@Barryneaves
My girlfriend said I was a rubbish cockney, so I pushed her down the apples and oranges! Lol
1:41 PM - 12 May 2013
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cas
@caspian_aplin
Peters bored of them apples and oranges on the stall, he’s not a real cockney #EELive
4:52 PM - 19 Feb 2015
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🤣 The Dad Joke Man 😉
@DadJokeMan
My mate said I wasn’t a true cockney, so I pushed him down the apples and oranges….
5:24 AM - 19 Aug 2018
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Daniel Killington
@dannyboy19734
My mate said I wasn’t a true cockney so I pushed him down the Apples and Oranges!
9:08 AM - 19 Aug 2018