"Porky pies', comes from Cockney rhyming slang (East London slang in which a rhyming phrase is substituted for a word, e. g., "apples and pears" means "stairs", "frog and toad'" means "road").
The museum claimed after the 2012 survey of 2,000 UK residents that rhyming slang was soon to be "brown bread" (dead) after results showed that most *respondents' knowledge of it had disappeared.
Every so often a phrase from Cockney rhyming slang grabs public attention and becomes a part of popular speech all over Britain, as has happened recently with "porky pies".
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