That's the way the money goes,Pop goes the weasel! is attributed to?

Siskin

Here is one of the many versions. From the nursery rhyme. 'Popping' is a slang term for pawning, i.e. depositing articles with a pawnbroker in return for money. Weasel is a corruption of whistle - in cockney rhyming slang 'whistle and flute' i.e. suit. So, 'Up and down the City Road, in and out of The Eagle, that's the way the money goes, pop goes the weasel', describes spending all your money on drink in the pub and subsequently pawning your suit to raise some more. http://phrases.shu.ac.uk/meanings/287500.html Jan 23 03, 4:57 PM

Gippler

Song 'Pop Goes the Weasel'. Either W R Mandale OR Charles Twiggs. Jan 23 03, 4:59 PM

Senior Moments

Lyrics in the song are explained thus: - Pop means 'to pawn,' and is still common slang today in some areas. Weasel is cockney rhyming slang for coat (weasel and stoat = coat). Poor families used to pawn there sunday best coats after the weekend to buy food and buy them back on payday ready for the next sunday. The City Road is a main road leading from London's eastern suburbs to the center of London's business district and the Eagle is a tavern on that road. People today say there is more talk in the Eagle of commodity trading than pawning. Tupenney rice is rice that costs 'tuppence' or two pence (plural of penny) per pound. Treacle is British for molasses. Jan 23 03, 5:04 PM

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