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Where does the origins of the cockney term, "...going for a ruby?" come from?
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If you mean in the sense of "going for a curry" then it's rhyming slang from Ruby Murray, a popular British pop singer of the 1950s. There's a website for her at http://www.boomchild.com/ruby/index.shtml
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