LMAO
Yep it's from across the pond.
"Got to my house (mickey mouse), found my way up the stairs (apples and pears), put on my suit (whistle and flute) when the phone (dog and bone) rang. It was my wife (trouble and strife) telling me to get the kids (teapot lids)."
Cockney Rhyming Slang takes a pair of associated words (e.g. fish hook), where the second word rhymes with the word you intend to say, then use the first word of the associated pair to indicate the word you originally intended to say. If you are talking about a book, the rhyme is "fish hook". So the slang expression is fish, as in "I'd like to say a word about the new fish by Len Deighton"
I wonder how young they start with this. It's not just easy slang words, this needs some serious intelligence to hook up those words.
