dog and bone

noun

1. slang:rhyming.
   a telephone

Example Sentences

Either way, it’s a matter of dog and bone: Each of you is just a different dog with a different bone.

From Washington Post

For one night only villagers were able to enjoy a pint at the Dog and Bone.

From BBC

Alright, so I was about to write an article about Windows 10 when I realised I was proper hank marvin, so I got on the dog and bone and belled up my mate Azza.

From The Verge

Another, in Shepreth, Cambridgeshire, became a temporary pub called - with a nod to cockney rhyming slang - the Dog and Bone in 2011 in protest at another venue, the Plough, closing.

From BBC

He wrote thus:— Dog and Bone, Lambeth, May 9th, 1797.

From Project Gutenberg