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storm and stripes
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Australian rhyming slang for a wife. See wife for synonyms.Quote: Joe Adams (Cary Grant) explaining jingle talk, Australian slang, to Dorothy Bryant (Laraine Day) in Mr. Lucky (1943): ' So, the Crunk and me are sitting in this coffee joint when in comes a pot and pan with his cheese and kisses. (...) Pipe an eyesick at the I-suppose at that guy's storm and stripes in the tommy horner.' Translation: Look at the nose on that guy's wife in the corner.
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