Here's another one "Brahms and Liszt"....anyone work that one and how it relates to drinking?
...an example "Poor sod he was completely brahms last night."
It's
Cockney Rhyming Slang, so the relationship is rhyme
The way it usually works is the last word of a common phrase or celebrity's name rhymes with the word you mean, but you often only use the first word. So for example, a phone is a "Dog and Bone" because "Bone" rhymes with "Phone", so when you're taking a call you're "on the dog".
"Me ol' china" comes from "China Plate" = "Mate"
Your "Trouble and Strife" is your "Wife".
Your "Barack Obamas" are your "Pyjamas".
If you're "John McCane" you're "Insane".
A "Sigourney Weaver" is a "Beaver".
Americans, our colonial friends will be pleased to know, are "Septics" as in "Septic Tank" = "Yank". Someone who doesn't like Americans is a "Listerine" because they're anti-septic
In the case of Brahms, "Liszt" ryhmes with "P*ssed".