round the houses

round the houses
Noun. Trousers. Rhyming slang.

English slang and colloquialisms. 2014.

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  • round the houses — If you go round the houses, you do something in an inefficient way when there is a quicker, more convenient way …   The small dictionary of idiomes

  • round the houses — Cockney Rhyming Slang Trousers e s got hisself a new set of round the houses …   English dialects glossary

  • round the houses —    If you go round the houses, you do something in an inefficient way when there is a quicker, more convenient way.   (Dorking School Dictionary) …   English Idioms & idiomatic expressions

  • Round the houses —   If you go round the houses, you do something in an inefficient way when there is a quicker, more convenient way …   Dictionary of English idioms

  • round the houses — adv British a. on a (long and) futile mission b. all over the body. The phrase is prostitutes and pornographers code for all over sexual stimulation …   Contemporary slang

  • go all round the houses — go (all) round the houses British to waste time saying a lot of things that are not important before you get to the subject you want to talk about. There s no need to go all round the houses, just tell me straight out what s wrong …   New idioms dictionary

  • go round the houses — go (all) round the houses British to waste time saying a lot of things that are not important before you get to the subject you want to talk about. There s no need to go all round the houses, just tell me straight out what s wrong …   New idioms dictionary

  • go (all) round the houses — Brit. take a circuitous route. → house …   English new terms dictionary

  • Round the Bend (1951 novel) — Round the Bend was a 1951 novel by Nevil Shute. It tells the story of Constantine Connie Shaklin, an aircraft engineer who founds a new religion transcending existing religions based on the merit of good work.In many ways, the book explores… …   Wikipedia

  • go all round the houses — British spoken 1) to go somewhere by a way that is very long and not direct 2) to say or do something in a very complicated way when it could be very simple …   English dictionary

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