Belly Phrases

Phrases

• A marvellous bird is the pelican, its beak holds more than its belly can
• Al desko (eating one's lunch while still working)
• All you add is love (Ralston Purina Pet Food advertising slogan)
• An army marches on its stomach
• Babies love it (Cow & Gate Milk Food advertising slogan)
• Beer belly
• Belly buster
• Belly flop
• Belly laugh
• Belly up
• Belly up to the bar
• Binge eating
• Blood and guts
• Bowels of the earth
• Butterflies in my stomach
• Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep (Middle of the Road song)
• Comfort food
• Cry like a rat eating onions
• Deja food
• Delhi belly
• Devil's food cake (A rich chocolate cake)
• Do you like hospital food?
• Doesn't your dog deserve ALPO? (Alpo Dog Food advertising slogan)
• Don't treat your puppy like a dog (Ralston Purina Pet Food advertising slogan)
• Eating disorder
• Eating for two
• Eating pate de fois gras to the sound of trumpets
• Eight out of ten cats prefer it (Whiskas Cat Food advertising slogan)
• Elvis the Pelvis (Nickname of Elvis Presley)
• Fast food and good for you (Egg Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• Finger food
• Fire in your belly
• Food chain
• Food for thought
• Food miles
• Food of the gods
• Food, Folks and Fun (McDonald's advertising slogan)
• Go belly up
• Good talk saves the food
• Greasy spoon (a small cheap cafe selling fried food)
• Greedy guts
• Gyppy tummy
• Had a bellyful
• Have the stomach for
• I'll have your guts for garters
• If music be the food of love, play on (from Twelth Night by Shakespeare)
• In the middle of nowhere
• In the pit of your stomach
• It's jack-a-licious! (Jack in the Box fast food chain advertising slogan)
• Jack's back (Jack in the Box fast food chain advertising slogan)
• Junk food

• Knock into the middle of next week
• Landed belly up
• Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet eating her curds and whey (line from nursery rhyme)
• Lower than a snake's belly
• Meet in the middle
• Middle England
• Middle man
• Middle of nowhere
• Middle of the road
• My stomach thinks my throat's been cut
• No guts no glory
• No guts, no glory
• Nothing else is Arthur's good (Arthur's Cat Food advertising slogan)
• Off your food
• On a full stomach
• Over the teeth and through the gums, look out stomach here it comes
• Piggy in the middle
• Play both ends against the middle
• Prolongs active life (PAL dog food advertising slogan)
• Rabbit food
• Real food for real people (The beef industry advertising slogan)
• Scream your guts out
• Sick to the stomach
• Silver service (a method of serving food using silver cutlery)
• Slap bang in the middle
• Smack dab in the middle
• So Farley's, so good (Farley's Baby Food advertising slogan)
• Soft underbelly
• Soul food
• Soup is good food (Campbell's Condensed Soup advertising slogan)
• Spanish tummy
• Spew your guts
• Spill your guts
• Squeezed middle
• Strong stomach
• Tastes so good cats ask for it by name (Meow Mix Cat food advertising slogan)
• The Delia Effect (increase in sales of food ingredients featured on Delia Smith's cookery shows)
• The Paris Of The Middle East (Nickname of Beirut Lebanon)
• The cat who doesn't act finicky soon loses control of his owner (9 Lives Cat Food advertising slogan)
• The proof of the pudding is in the eating
• The queen was in the parlour eating bread and honey (line from nursery rhyme)
• The way to a man's heart is through his stomach
• There's fast food, and then there's KFC (KFC advertising slogan)
• Thus far into the bowels of the land
• Tobacco is our middle name (American Brands, Inc advertising slogan)
• Top breeders recommend it (Pedigree Chum Dog food advertising slogan)
• Tummy trouble
• Turn your stomach
• Yellow belly (slang term for a coward)
• Your eyes are bigger than your stomach
• Yummy, Yummy, Yummy, I've Got Love In My Tummy (Ohio Express song)

Related

• A marvellous bird is the pelican, its beak holds more than its belly can
• Beer belly
• Belly buster
• Belly flop
• Belly laugh
• Belly up
• Belly up to the bar
• Delhi belly
• Fire in your belly
• Go belly up
• Landed belly up
• Lower than a snake's belly
• Yellow belly (slang term for a coward)