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Idiom

clever mike

SlangCockney rhyming slang

Meaning

bike

Examples

“I ride my clever mike to the park every morning.”

“He needs to fix the flat tire on his clever mike before we can go for our weekend ride.”

“The old man still travels across the village on his rusty clever mike, refusing to trade his two wheels for a modern car.”

Examples

simple

“I ride my clever mike to the park every morning.”

contextual

“He needs to fix the flat tire on his clever mike before we can go for our weekend ride.”

complex

“The old man still travels across the village on his rusty clever mike, refusing to trade his two wheels for a modern car.”

Origin

Influenced by the extreme displays that adolescents are inclined to perform on a bicycle, especially when showing off.

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