adjective General Slang

Pete Tong

· adjective · cockney

Cockney rhyming slang for wrong — as in 'it's all gone Pete Tong'.

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Wrong — but specifically in the phrase 'it's all gone Pete Tong', meaning the whole thing has fallen apart spectacularly. Modern Cockney, coined after BBC Radio 1 DJ Pete Tong, whose name happened to rhyme too perfectly to ignore. There's a 2004 film of the same name about a deaf DJ.

“Tried to fix the boiler myself and it's all gone Pete Tong.”
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Pete Tong In A Sentence

Tried to fix the boiler myself and it's all gone Pete Tong.

Origin & Usage

Late 20th-century Cockney rhyming slang, after British DJ Pete Tong (b. 1960).

Variants all gone Pete Tong
Tags #cockney#rhyming-slang#british#modern

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