china plate

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a plate made of china.

(Cockney rhyming slang, Australian rhyming slang) Mate.

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In Australia and South Africa, the colloquial term "China" is derived from "mate" rhyming with "China plate" (the identical form, heard in expressions like "me old China" is also a long-established Cockney idiom). Source: Internet

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