Fork Phrases

Phrases

• Angle for
• At knife point
• Before you could say knife
• Born with a silver spoon in his mouth
• Branch out
• Bucket and spade holiday
• Call a spade a shovel
• Call a spade a spade
• Digital divide
• Divide and conquer
• 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
• Mac the Knife (Nickname of Harold Macmillan)
• Mack The Knife (Bertold Brecht song)
• Not the sharpest knife in the drawer
• Olive branch
• On a knife edge
• Religious divide
• Root and branch
• Silver service (a method of serving food using silver cutlery)
• Spade work
• That's not a knife; that's a knife (Crocodile Dundee)
• The Mahatma (Nickname of Branch Rickey executive)
• The dish ran away with the spoon (line from nursery rhyme)
• The north south divide
• Twist the knife
• When the bough breaks the cradle will fall, and down will come baby, cradle and all (line from nursery rhyme)
• White man speak with forked tongue
• 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)