Dough Phrases

Phrases

• A slice of the cake
• As nutty as a fruit cake
• Batter up
• Bread always falls butter side down
• Bread and butter
• Bread and circuses
• Bread of life
• Bread wi' nowt taken out (Allinson's Bread advertising slogan)
• Break bread
• Brown bread (Cockney rhyming slang for dead)
• Cake or death (line from Eddie Izzard comedy)
• Cake pop (A small piece of cake coated with chocolate)
• Cake walk
• Cast your bread upon the waters
• Cleanup hitter (A baseball expression meaning a batter who comes in to solve a problem)
• Cooks who know trust Crisco (Crisco Vegetable Shortening advertising slogan)
• Devil's food cake (A rich chocolate cake)
• Don't say brown - say Hovis (Hovis Bread advertising slogan)
• Fresh to the last slice (Sunblest Bread advertising slogan)
• Fruit cake
• Half a loaf is better than no bread
• Have your bread buttered on both sides
• Icing on the cake
• John Doe
• Know which side your bread is buttered
• Let them eat cake (Marie Antoinette quotation - attributed)
• Loaf about
• Loaf of bread (Cockney rhyming slang for head)
• Man does not live by bread alone
• Pat a cake, Pat a cake, baker's man, bake me a cake as fast as you can (line from nursery rhyme)
• Piece of cake
• Put bread on the table
• Shut your cake hole
• Sugar Loaf Mountain (tourist attraction in Brazil)
• Switch hitter (A baseball expression denoting a batter who can hit left or right handed)
• Take the bread out of someone's mouth
• Takes the cake
• The best thing since sliced bread
• The bread always falls buttered side down
• The cherry on the cake
• The queen was in the parlour eating bread and honey (line from nursery rhyme)
• Use your loaf
• White bread
• You can't have your cake and eat it too
• You don't have to be Jewish to love Levy's Rye Bread (Levy's Rye Bread advertising slogan)