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Nelli | 18:51 Mon 19th Nov 2001 | Phrases & Sayings
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Where does the origins of the cockney term, "...going for a ruby?" come from?
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If you mean in the sense of "going for a curry" then it's rhyming slang from Ruby Murray, a popular British pop singer of the 1950s. There's a website for her at http://www.boomchild.com/ruby/index.shtml
01:33 Tue 20th Nov 2001
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Ruby Murry was a singer i think, And that rhymes with curry
18:57 Thu 29th Nov 2001

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