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Aug 14, 2020 11:28
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English term

It's not the P to pay for the wheel.

English Other Slang British Slang
What does the whole sentence mean?
Thanks in advance...
Responses
2 +4 It's not for lack of money to leave
2 It's not the money for the ride
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context, fwiw/hth
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Aug 14, 2020 12:06: writeaway changed "Field" from "Art/Literary" to "Other"

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Helena Chavarria Aug 14, 2020:
This might help https://www.reddit.com/r/wolfalice/comments/ewwhe1/giant_pea...
Serhan Elmacıoğlu (asker) Aug 14, 2020:
Wolf Alice As far as I know, The P meaning pussy.
Sorry about that I'm putting the link here https://genius.com/Wolf-alice-giant-peach-lyrics
Charlotte Fleming Aug 14, 2020:
Need more context, if possible. Without context, the only thing I can think of is that the P should be p, i.e. pence, as in "it's not the pence/pennies/cash to pay for the wheel [it's something else]"."

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It's not for lack of money to leave

Low confidence on this one, but as has been said, "P" is a well-known way to refer to money in the UK (short for "pence/penny"). The verse is reflecting on what keeps the narrator in the town. The wheel clearly refers to travelling -- away in this case. So it's saying that the need for money to leave is not what's keeping them in the town.

BTW, nobody would have had a clue without the context posted by writeaway.
Peer comment(s):
agree philgoddard : Probably. It could be a mistake for "wheels", ie car. The word it rhymes with is "feels".
1 hr
Thanks Phil. It could be a typo, although the rhymes clearly don't have priority here
agree Yvonne Gallagher : seems most likely//see Helena's link in Dbox so Petrol = the P. certainly makes sense!
5 hrs
Thanks, Yvonne
agree Polangmar : Good explanation - but "P" is probably short for "problem" (cf "It's not the money(?) to pay for the wheel" and "It's not the problem to pay for the wheel").
6 hrs
Thanks.
agree Thea Brody
7 hrs
Thanks.
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56 mins

It's not the money for the ride

I've searched online and I found this interesting article where it specifies that P means money in the London slang. A British friend confirmed that P = money as well.

I believe the translation of that sentence could be the one specified above, especially after reading the sentence before in the lyrics.

I'm not 100% sure about it hence the low confidence.
Reference:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4761034/How-today-s-underground-lingo.html

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Reference comments

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Reference:

context, fwiw/hth

Giant Peach
by Wolf Alice

Wolf AliceMy Love Is Cool
Album: My Love Is Cool (2015

I got change in a pocket somewhere
Got my letter in the box
Tired of waiting for the bus to nowhere
And tired of chasing the stone fox
I don't tell lies no more, you know
I just don't tell the truth
I don't know what I'm looking for, ya know
But I'm not looking for proof

I have a tricky love affair, you know
With the place where I grew up
But it knows I'll never leave, ya know
I never left it much
I hate to see it despair, oh, don't you do it
I hate to see it screw up
But it knows I can hardly grieve
When it's hard to give a, hard to give a... wow!

What keeps me here?
It's not the boy giving the funny feels
Don't know what keeps me here
It's not the P to pay for the wheel
What the hell keeps me here?
In this dark old town that I adore
The rules don't seem so clear
And change, it feels like fear, it's all you know

Our dark and pretty town
Our dark and pretty town
Our dark and handsome town
Our dark and pretty town
My dark and pretty town
Writer/s: Ellen Ciara Rowsell, Joel Donald Scott Amey, Jonathan David Oddie, Theodore Joseph Ellis
Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., BMG Rights Management
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

https://www.songfacts.com/lyrics/wolf-alice/giant-peach
Peer comments on this reference comment:
agree Tina Vonhof (X) : Great song.
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Reference:

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Explanation in Polish: https://www.tekstowo.pl/piosenka,wolf_alice,giant_peach.html (click Pokaż tłumaczenie on the left)

Machine translation: https://tinyurl.com/y67vyze3

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Note added at 8 hrs (2020-08-14 19:32:09 GMT)
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Click Pokaż tłumaczenie on the right (after Tłumaczenie)
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