Mutt and Jeff is cockney rhyming slang for Deaf
💬 “You’ll have to speak up, ‘e’s a bit Mutton“
Almost always shortened to mutton.
Mutt and Jeff was an American strip cartoon by Bud Fisher in the San Fransisco Chronicle and San Francisco Examiner, and later syndicated to many other papers.
Submitted by Danny.
First submitted on April 21, 2000.