Corn Phrases

Phrases

• A drowning man will clutch at a straw
• A foot in both camps
• A tight corner
• Acknowledge the corn
• Athlete's foot
• Bet you can't eat three (Shredded Wheat advertising slogan)
• Blind corner
• Bound hand and foot
• Breakfast of Champions (Wheaties Cereal advertising slogan)
• Can of corn (A baseball expression meaning a ball which is easy to catch)
• Coffin corner
• Corn and cluck for a buck (Kentucky Fried Chicken advertising slogan)
• Corn fed
• Corner the market
• Cornflower blue
• Crunchy wheat, nicely sweet (Kellogg's advertising slogan)
• Do you know the piano's on my foot?
• Does it make sense to jump out of a warm bed into a cold cereal? (Quaker Oats advertising slogan)
• Drive someone into a corner
• Earn your corn
• Even a blind hog finds an acorn once in a while
• Fleet of foot
• Foot in mouth
• Foot in the bucket (A baseball expression meaning to act timidly or cowardly)
• Foot in the door
• Foot the bill
• Get off on the right foot
• Get off on the wrong foot
• Get your foot in the door
• Go to a neutral corner
• Gotta have my pops! (Corn Pops advertising slogan)
• Hush puppies
• I don't believe it (A catchphrase from Victor Meldrew, One Foot In The Grave)
• I'll go to the foot of our stairs
• In your corner
• Jimmy Horner (Cockney rhyming slang for corner)
• Just around the corner
• Kitty corner
• Last straw
• Little Jack Horner sat in a corner (line from nursery rhyme)
• Man of straw
• Mikey likes it (Life cereal advertising slogan)
• On the back foot
• On the wrong foot
• One Foot In The Grave (BBC comedy television series)
• One foot in the grave
• Paint yourself into a corner
• Painted into a corner
• Put a foot wrong
• Put one foot in front of the other
• Put your best foot forward
• Put your foot down
• Put your foot in it
• Put your foot in your mouth
• Roar, Boys, Roar, It tastes like more, What a flavor, Zippity-zow - its grand - and HOW (Grape-Nuts Flakes Cereal advertising slogan)
• Set foot in
• Shoot yourself in the foot
• Sort the wheat from the chaff
• Straw Dogs (Dustin Hoffman / Sam Peckinpah movie)
• Straw man
• The Adventure of the Devil's Foot (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Corn State (Nickname of the US state of Iowa)
• The Naughty Corner
• The boot is on the other foot
• The cereal that's shot from guns! (Quaker Puffed Wheat advertising slogan)
• The last straw that broke the camel's back
• The one and only cereal that comes in the shape of animals (Crispy Critters advertising slogan)
• The sheep's in the meadow the cow's in the corn (line from nursery rhyme)
• The shoe's on the other foot
• Turn the corner
• Work the rabbit's foot on
• You can't make bricks without straw