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by ragtagtag 828 days ago
In this case, I suspect "china" comes from Cockney rhyming slang, "china plate", "mate", as in "friend".
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re 828 days ago
No, it's referring to the tableware -- every word in that position for all the phrases is a container of some sort (or at least a thing that can contain other things).
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