Mutt and Jeff
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noun a pair of men who are physically mismatched, especially in height. From the popular comic strip US, 1914
Ⅱ ⇨ Mutt and Jeff; mutton
adjective deaf. Rhyming slang from the US cartoon strip characters created by Bud Fisher (1855–1954). Mutt first appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle in 1907, Jeff was drawn in shortly after and by 1915 the pair were a national phenomenon. Adopted into UK theatrical slang and consequently reduced in pronunciation to 'mutton' UK, 1960