Phrases & SayingsEveryday lifeRhyming slang
cheese and kisses
Rhyming slang for one's missus or wife.
In a sentence
He headed home to see the cheese and kisses.
Where it came from
Australian-language surveys and Australian slang collections treat cheese and kisses as an Australian rhyming-slang expression in living/remembered usage.
- Initial era
- 1850–1899
- Where used
- Australian use; no narrower regional pattern established