Idiom
pleasure and pain
SlangCockney rhyming slang
Meaning
rain
Examples
“I forgot my umbrella in the pleasure and pain.”
“We were walking home from the cinema when the pleasure and pain started falling heavily on us.”
“The old man sat by the window, watching the pleasure and pain wash the dust from the empty streets during the long afternoon storm.”
Examples
simple
“I forgot my umbrella in the pleasure and pain.”
contextual
“We were walking home from the cinema when the pleasure and pain started falling heavily on us.”
complex
“The old man sat by the window, watching the pleasure and pain wash the dust from the empty streets during the long afternoon storm.”
Origin
Both a matter of pleasure for gardeners and pain for sufferers from rheumatism.
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