“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
Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps. Stolen and missing, 2021-2024.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
Also listen to a 1937 "The Big Apple" song by Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra. See a 1929 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald and a 1931 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald.
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