►go butcher's hookto get angry or upset AUSTRALIA, 1918. sick, ill, unwell. Rhyming slang for CROOKAUSTRALIA, 1967
2.noun
a look. Rhyming slang UK, 1936
idiombutcher'shave/take a butcher's BrEBrEspoken to look at something:What's that in your hand - let's have a butcher's.Here, take a butcher's at this paper - it says that alcohol is good for you. —see feature box on page 40
NoteThis idiom is an example of Cockney rhyming slang. 'Butcher's is a short form of 'butcher's hook', which sounds the same as 'look'.