chicken oriental

chicken oriental

1. (Cockney rhyming slang) Mental, crazy, insane.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:insane

   • 2003 November 24, Beer Monster, “Re: just curious.........”, in alt.culture.ukc.misc‎^[1] (Usenet):

     Gave up and moved back home. Since then house prices have gone chicken oriental so the likelihood of me moving into my own place is very small.

   • 2008, Sophie Hannah, The Fantastic Book of Everybody's Secrets: Short Stories, London: Sort of Books, →ISBN, page 59:

     Tom shivered. This sounded like a comment of the sort that might first alert a husband to his wife’s rankling insanity. ‘Our new family?’ he echoed. ¶ ‘Yes. Don’t look worried – I haven’t gone chicken oriental. I made a simple, practical decision. […]’