Classic Cockney rhyming slang for money — 'bread and honey' rhymes with 'money', following the same logic as 'plates of meat' (feet) and 'dog and bone' (phone). Like all rhyming slang, the fun is in the indirection: you say the thing that rhymes instead of the thing you mean, and anyone not in the know gets left behind. Bread and honey is one of the most recognisable examples, cropping up in British culture from market stalls to gangster films. Where's the bread? Where's the money.
I'd love to come on holiday but I simply haven't got the bread and honey right now.
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(UK, slang) Money.
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