Grain Phrases

Phrases

• Against the grain
• As keen as mustard
• Bet you can't eat three (Shredded Wheat advertising slogan)
• Breakfast of Champions (Wheaties Cereal advertising slogan)
• C'mon Colman's, light my fire (Colman's Mustard advertising slogan)
• Crunchy wheat, nicely sweet (Kellogg's advertising slogan)
• Cut the mustard
• Does it make sense to jump out of a warm bed into a cold cereal? (Quaker Oats advertising slogan)
• Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been (Beatles song lyric)
• Feel your oats
• Flash 80 (Nickname of Jerry Rice)
• Go against the grain
• Gone to seed
• Graded grains make finer flour (Homepride Flour advertising slogan)
• Grain of truth
• Half a pound of tuppenny rice, half a pound of treacle (line from nursery rhyme)
• Jazz it up! (Zattaran's Rice Products advertising slogan)
• Kernel of truth
• Like white on rice
• Mean Mr. Mustard (Beatles song)
• Mikey likes it (Life cereal advertising slogan)
• Parsley seed goes nine times to the devil
• Roar, Boys, Roar, It tastes like more, What a flavor, Zippity-zow - its grand - and HOW (Grape-Nuts Flakes Cereal advertising slogan)
• Run to seed
• Seed capital
• Seed money
• Semolina pilchard climbing up the Eiffel Tower (Beatles song lyric)
• Snap, Crackle, and Pop (Kellogg's Rice Krispies advertising slogan)
• Sort the wheat from the chaff
• Sow your wild oats
• Take it with a grain of salt
• Take with a grain of salt
• The cereal that's shot from guns! (Quaker Puffed Wheat advertising slogan)
• The one and only cereal that comes in the shape of animals (Crispy Critters advertising slogan)
• Top seed
• Two all beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onions on a sesame seed bun (McDonald's advertising slogan)