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Define Plate

SimonTemplar · 2012-09-13 22:13:15

I was recently at a west end show of Sweeney Todd. The opening song contained the following passage about his wife: There was another man who saw that she was beautiful... A pious vulture of the law who, with a gesture of his claw removed the barber from his plate! Then there was nothing but to wait! And she would fall! So…

13-09-2012 11:13PM

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SimonTemplar

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I was recently at a west end show of Sweeney Todd. The opening song contained the following passage about his wife:

There was another man who saw
that she was beautiful...
A pious vulture of the law
who, with a gesture of his claw
removed the barber from his plate!
Then there was nothing but to wait!
And she would fall!
So soft!
So young!
So lost and oh so beautiful!

Can anyone explain the definition of the word "plate" in this context?

Cheers.

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#2 14-09-2012 12:56AM

Yakuza

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Hmm - "plates of meat" is the cockney rhyming slang for feet - would one plate mean one foot? (knocked off his foot / feet?)

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