C is for Cream Crackered.

I was contemplating a few words over the course of the day for tonight’s post including castration, conception and carol singers but it’s already 10.30pm, I’ve done three hours of housework, two hours of commuting and a nine-hour working day so my brain is fried. I finally got home at 9.30pm, cooked tea for my youngest son and will be leaving the house at 11pm to pick up another from a nearby town so I think I’m just going to go for “cream crackered” instead.

If you’ve not heard of the expression”Cream crackered” it is a slang phrase here in the UK which means “knackered”- or to put it politely – very, very tired. Cockney rhyming slang is particularly prevalent in the East End of London although some expressions like Cream crackered have filtered into wider usage. Essentially, Cockney rhyming slang is a group of phrases used by Cockneys as expressions instead of using the correct word.

Cockney rhyming slang is pretty simple to undertsand. Here are some simple famous examples:

Rosie lee means tea

Apples and pears means stairs

Trouble and strife means wife

Adam and Eve means believe

So you’ll understand that now when I write I am cream crackered you know what I mean!

Anyway, time to go and finish my parental duties for the day. And when I get home I’m going straight to bed!

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Paula says:

4 April 2017 at 2:54 AM

I have never heard the expression. But it is one I will not soon forget! And I have been cream crackered a few times in my life. I am right now!!

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Jane Turley says:

5 April 2017 at 9:51 AM

I'm cream crackered a lot these days Paula – but on the plus side I don't have to put up with snoring anymore so I get much better quality sleep! LOL.

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