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==Other uses of term== The OED gives a secondary definition of "bubble and squeak": "figurative and in figurative contexts. Something resembling or suggestive of bubble and squeak, especially in consisting of a variety of elements". In 1825 a reviewer in ''[[The Morning Post]]'' dismissed a new opera at [[Royal Opera House|Covent Garden]] as "a sort of bubble and squeak mixture of English and Italian".<ref>"Covent Garden Theatre", ''The Morning Post'', 9 April 1825, p. 3</ref> The OED gives examples from the 18th to the 21st centuries, including, from [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge|Coleridge]], "... the restless Bubble and Squeak of his Vanity and Discontent", and from [[D. H. Lawrence]], "I can make the most lovely bubble and squeak of a life for myself".<ref name=oed/> In [[rhyming slang|cockney rhyming slang]] the phrase was formerly used for "beak" (magistrate) and more recently "Bubble" has been used for "Greek".<ref name=oed/> The term has been borrowed by authors of children's books as names for a pair of puppies and (by two different authors) pairs of mice.<ref>[https://archive.org/search.php?query=Bubble%20and%20Squeak&and=mediatype%3A%22texts%22 "Bubble and Squeak"], Internet Archive. Retrieved 27 October 2020</ref> In the late 1940s, George Moreno Jr., an American animator living and working in England, borrowed the term, re-spelling it "Bubble and Squeek," for a series of cartoon shorts released by [[Associated British-Pathe]]. The star characters of Moreno's cartoons were a humanized taxi (Squeek) and its driver (Bubble).
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