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Playful rhymes for people and pets

with our pets because we treat our pets as our children in the UK the tone of voice is important with this one as otherwise it could sound pretty insulting oh you are a silly Bi...

Course: Richer words and phrasesSection: Rhyming slang and wordplaySubtitles: en

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lot

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with our pets because we treat our pets

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as our children in the UK the tone of

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voice is important with this one as

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otherwise it could sound pretty

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insulting oh you are a silly Billy take

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that bucket off your head fun fact I

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actually got a bucket stuck on my head

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as a child I put it on like this and put

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the strap under my chin to look like a

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soldier I was definitely a silly Billy

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it had to be cut off and it was my

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favorite bucket in fact I don't think

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I've recovered another Hocus Pocus this

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is silliness or magical activity often

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used to trick someone just be honest

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stop all this Hocus Pocus often Wizards

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will say it before casting a spell hocus

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pocus

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she's disappeared

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we also have lovey-dovey this is a

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romantic adjective for people who show

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pdas ah pdas these are public displays

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of affection mum and dad are far too

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lovey-dovey they're always holding hands

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another you might come across not so

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common Helter Skelter this is either a

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type of slide that goes all the way

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around like that you'll find it in a

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playground or an adjective to describe

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hurrying and confusion we had a Helter

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