Bun Phrases

Phrases

• A slice of the cake
• As nutty as a fruit cake
• 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)
• Bun in the oven
• Bun run
• 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
• Currant bun (Cockney rhyming slang for sun)
• 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
• If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit join our Club (Jacob's Club advertising slogan)
• Know which side your bread is buttered
• Let them eat cake (Marie Antoinette quotation - attributed)
• Loaf of bread (Cockney rhyming slang for head)
• Man does not live by bread alone
• Meadow muffin
• 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
• Stud muffin
• Take the biscuit
• Take the bread out of someone's mouth
• Takes the cake
• That just about takes the biscuit
• The Biscuit (Nickname of John Cage (Peter MacNicol))
• 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)
• Think outside the bun (Taco Bell advertising slogan)
• Two all beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onions on a sesame seed bun (McDonald's advertising slogan)
• We are going to need considerably bigger buns (line from Calendar Girls)
• 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)