Eating Phrases

Phrases

• A marvellous bird is the pelican, its beak holds more than its belly can
• A piece of meat
• A slice of the cake
• A-1 makes hamburgers taste like steakburgers (A-1 Steak Sauce advertising slogan)
• Al desko (eating one's lunch while still working)
• Andrews for Inner Cleanliness (Andrews Liver Salts advertising slogan)
• As gentle as a lamb
• As nutty as a fruit cake
• Be a lamb
• Beat your meat
• Beer belly
• Belly buster
• Belly flop
• Belly laugh
• Belly up
• Belly up to the bar
• Binge eating
• Bite off more than you can chew
• Bring out the Hellmann's, and bring out the best (Hellmann's Mayonnaise advertising slogan)
• Bun in the oven
• Buzzard meat
• Cake or death (line from Eddie Izzard comedy)
• Cake pop (A small piece of cake coated with chocolate)
• Cake walk
• Can you tell Stork from butter? (Stork Margarine advertising slogan)
• Chew a gun
• Chew face
• Chew out
• Chew someone's ass
• Chew the cud
• Chew the fat
• Chew up the scenery
• Choosy Moms choose Jif (Jif Peanut Butter advertising slogan)
• Chopped liver
• Chopsticks are one of the reasons the Chinese never invented custard (Spike Milligan line)
• Cold meat
• Cry like a rat eating onions
• Dead meat
• Death by chocolate
• Delhi belly
• Devil's food cake (A rich chocolate cake)
• Dutch oven
• Easy meat
• Eating disorder
• Eating for two
• Eating pate de fois gras to the sound of trumpets
• Every picture tells a story (Doanes Backache Kidney Pills advertising slogan)
• Everywhere that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go (line from nursery rhyme)
• Fire in your belly
• Food chain
• Frosted Lucky Charms, they're magically delicious (Lucky Charms cereals advertising slogan)
• Fruit cake
• Glutton for punishment
• Go belly up
• Half a loaf is better than no bread
• I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti (The Silence of the Lambs)
• I can see you standing over a hot stove, but I can't see the stove (Groucho Marx line)
• I could eat a horse
• I've come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum
• Icing on the cake
• If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit join our Club (Jacob's Club advertising slogan)
• In like a lion out like a lamb
• In two shakes of a lamb's tail
• It is meat and drink to me
• It's all meat, a real treat
• Ketchup bottle effect

• Kid Delicious (Nickname of Kevin Durant)
• Lady Marmalade (Christina Aguilera Lil' Kim and Pink song)
• Lamb chop
• Lamb to the slaughter
• Landed belly up
• Let them eat cake (Marie Antoinette quotation - attributed)
• Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet eating her curds and whey (line from nursery rhyme)
• Loaf about
• Loaf of bread (Cockney rhyming slang for head)
• Lower than a snake's belly
• March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb
• Mary had a little lamb its fleece was white as snow (line from nursery rhyme)
• Meat and drink
• Meat and potatoes
• Meat and two veg
• Meat head
• Meat is murder
• Meat market
• Meat packer
• Meat wagon
• More sizzle than steak
• Mutton dressed as lamb
• My salad days
• My stomach thinks my throat's been cut
• Mystery meat
• Nothin' says lovin' like somethin' from the oven (Pillsbury advertising slogan)
• Off the menu
• On the hoof
• On the menu
• One man's meat is another man's poison
• One may as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb
• Oven ready
• 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
• Pig out
• Plates of meat (Cockney rhyming slang for feet)
• Pork, the other white meat (National Pork Council advertising slogan)
• Raspberry tart (Cockney rhyming slang for fart)
• Rubber chicken curcuit (a speaking or fundraising event at which poor quality meat is served)
• Salad Days
• Salad dodger
• Salami slicing
• Send a salami to your boy in the army
• Shut your cake hole
• Slapping the salami
• Sprout wings
• Sugar Loaf Mountain (tourist attraction in Brazil)
• Take the biscuit
• Takes the cake
• Tangerine trees and marmalade skies (Beatles song lyric)
• That just about takes the biscuit
• The Biscuit (Nickname of John Cage (Peter MacNicol))
• The Ketchup Song (Las Ketchup song)
• The Liver Birds (BBC comedy television series)
• The Steak (Nickname of Adriano)
• The cherry on the cake
• The lion may lie down with the lamb, but the lamb won't get much sleep (Woody Allen line)
• The proof of the pudding is in the eating
• The queen was in the parlour eating bread and honey (line from nursery rhyme)
• Tuck in
• Two shakes of a lamb's tail
• Use your loaf
• Walk and chew gum at the same time
• What am I chopped liver?
• Yellow belly (slang term for a coward)
• Yellow matter custard dripping from a dead dog's eye (Beatles song lyric)
• You can't have your cake and eat it too