Cutlery Phrases

Phrases

• At knife point
• Before you could say knife
• Born with a silver spoon in his mouth
• Canteen culture (boorish behaviour by rank and file police or soldiers)
• Egg and spoon race
• Fork out
• Fork the tree
• Go under the knife
• Greasy spoon (a small cheap cafe selling fried food)
• He who sups with the Devil should use a long spoon
• If all the world were Jell-O, And whipped cream filled the sea, Then the only spoon from here to the moon Would have to belong to me (Jell-O Gelatin Dessert advertising slogan)
• Knife and fork it
• Lay the table
• Mac the Knife (Nickname of Harold Macmillan)
• Mack The Knife (Bertold Brecht song)
• Not the sharpest knife in the drawer
• On a knife edge
• Silver service (a method of serving food using silver cutlery)
• That's not a knife; that's a knife (Crocodile Dundee)
• The People's Republic of South Yorkshire (Nickname of Sheffield England)
• The Socialist Republic Of South Yorkshire (Nickname of Sheffield England)
• The Steel City (Nickname of Sheffield England)
• The dish ran away with the spoon (line from nursery rhyme)
• Twist the knife
• Win the wooden spoon
• You could have cut the atmosphere with a knife
• You'll never put a better bit of butter on your knife (Country Life butter advertising slogan)