Kitchen Phrases

Phrases

• A Room With A View (E M Forster book)
• A house is not a home
• A room without books is like a body without a soul (Marcus Tullius Cicero quotation)
• A woman's place is in the home
• Aga saga
• All you add is love (Ralston Purina Pet Food advertising slogan)
• American Home has an edifice complex (American Home Magazine advertising slogan)
• An Englishman's home is his castle
• As nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs
• At home with
• Babies love it (Cow & Gate Milk Food advertising slogan)
• Back room boy
• Barrack room lawyer
• Be It Ever So Humble There's No Place Like Home (John Howard Payne and Sir Henry Bishop song)
• Bedroom tax (slang term for UK's removal of Spare Room Subsidy)
• Beer at home means Davenport's (Davenport's beer advertising slogan)
• Blue plate special (a set meal provided at a reduced price)
• Boiler room (The location of a high pressure telephone sales team)
• Breathing room
• Bring home the bacon
• Bring it home to you
• Bringing it home to me (Prime Television advertising slogan)
• Broken home
• Burger King - the home of the Whopper (Burger King advertising slogan)
• Charity begins at home
• Chef de mission
• Chief cook and bottle washer
• Close to home
• Come home to Birds Eye Country (Birds Eye Frozen Foods advertising slogan)
• Come home to a real fire (Coal Board advertising slogan)
• Come home to roost
• Comfort food
• Comfort room (A euphemism for lavatory)
• Cook the books
• Cook up a plan
• Cook up a storm
• Cook your goose
• Cook's night out
• Deja food
• Devil's food cake (A rich chocolate cake)
• Dirty kitchen (An outdoor kitchen used for smelly food)
• Do you like hospital food?
• Doesn't your dog deserve ALPO? (Alpo Dog Food advertising slogan)
• Don't just book it, Thomas Cook it (Thomas Cook advertising slogan)
• Don't leave home without it (American Express advertising slogan)
• Don't treat your puppy like a dog (Ralston Purina Pet Food advertising slogan)
• Don't try this at home
• Drive your point home
• Driven home
• ET phone home (ET)
• East, west, home's best
• Eaten out of house and home
• Eight out of ten cats prefer it (Whiskas Cat Food advertising slogan)
• Elbow room
• Everything but the kitchen sink
• Fast food and good for you (Egg Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• Finger food
• Food chain
• Food for thought
• Food miles
• Food of the gods
• Food, Folks and Fun (McDonald's advertising slogan)
• Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room (Dr.Strangelove)
• Go hard or go home
• Go home in a box
• Go home in an ambulance
• Going going gone (A baseball expression by which an announcer describes a home run that is heading over the fence)
• Good talk saves the food
• Greasy spoon (a small cheap cafe selling fried food)
• Hail to the chef
• Hammer it home
• Have a Captain Cook (Cockney rhyming slang for look)
• Hearth and home
• Heavy meal
• Hit home
• Home For The Holidays (film starring Holly Hunter and Robert Downey Jr.)
• Home James and don't spare the horses
• Home alone
• Home and dry
• Home and hearth
• Home and hosed
• Home boy
• Home delivery
• Home free
• Home from home
• Home front
• Home grown
• Home haircut
• Home improvement
• Home is the hunter
• Home is where the heart is
• Home is wherever I lay my hat
• Home maker
• Home remedy
• Home resort
• Home rule
• Home run
• Home stretch
• Home suite hotel (Larkspur Landing Hotel advertising slogan)
• Home sweet home
• Home truth
• Home worker
• Home, home on the range
• Honey I'm home
• House and home
• I can see you standing over a hot stove, but I can't see the stove (Groucho Marx line)
• If music be the food of love, play on (from Twelth Night by Shakespeare)
• If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen (A catchphrase from Harry S Truman)
• It sits as lightly on a heavy meal as it does on your conscience (Jell-O Gelatin Dessert advertising slogan)
• It's jack-a-licious! (Jack in the Box fast food chain advertising slogan)
• Jack's back (Jack in the Box fast food chain advertising slogan)
• Junk food
• Keep the home fires burning
• Kitchen cabinet
• Kitchen sink drama
• Leave the room
• Locker room humour
• Make a meal of it
• Make room
• Make yourself at home
• Meal ticket
• Mode for your abode (Metropolitan Home advertising slogan)
• My heart went boom when I crossed that room (Beatles song lyric)
• No room to breathe
• No room to swing a cat
• Nothing else is Arthur's good (Arthur's Cat Food advertising slogan)
• Nothing to write home about
• Nowhere else but Burger Chef (Burger Chef advertising slogan)
• Off your food
• Oh Give Me A Home Where The Buffalo Roam (Brewster Higly song)
• One card for home and abroad (Maestro advertising slogan)
• Oxo gives a meal man appeal (Oxo gravy advertising slogan)
• POSH - Port out, starboard home (false attribution of the origin of the word posh)
• Panic room
• Phone home
• Pick up your marbles and go home
• Powder room
• Press your point home
• Prolongs active life (PAL dog food advertising slogan)
• Rabbit food
• Ram it home
• Real food for real people (The beef industry advertising slogan)
• Revenue per available room
• Revenue per occupied room
• Romp home
• Room for improvement
• Room for one more inside
• Room to let
• She's Leaving Home (Beatles song)
• Silver service (a method of serving food using silver cutlery)
• Smallest room in the house
• Smoke-filled room
• So Farley's, so good (Farley's Baby Food advertising slogan)
• Soul food
• Soup is good food (Campbell's Condensed Soup advertising slogan)
• Square meal
• Standing room only
• Take a Thomas Cook at our prices! (Thomas Cook Travel advertising slogan)
• Take home pay
• Tastes so good cats ask for it by name (Meow Mix Cat food advertising slogan)
• That brought it home to me
• The Delia Effect (increase in sales of food ingredients featured on Delia Smith's cookery shows)
• The Galloping Gourmet (Pseudonym of cook Graham Kerr)
• The Home Of Paul Bunyan And Babe The Blue Ox (Nickname of Westwood California, Brainerd Minnesota and Bemidji Minnesota)
• The Home Of The Masters (Nickname of Augusta Georgia)
• The Kitchen (Nickname of Nate Newton)
• The Meal Ticket (Nickname of Pau Gasol)
• The cat who doesn't act finicky soon loses control of his owner (9 Lives Cat Food advertising slogan)
• The chickens have come home to roost
• The elephant in the room
• The green green grass of home
• The lights are on but there's no one at home
• The little boys' room
• There's always room for J-E-L-L-O (Jell-O advertising slogan)
• There's fast food, and then there's KFC (KFC advertising slogan)
• There's no place like HBO (Home Box Office advertising slogan)
• There's no place like home
• This little piggy went to market, this little piggy stayed at home (line from nursery rhyme)
• Till the cows come home
• Time to go home
• Top breeders recommend it (Pedigree Chum Dog food advertising slogan)
• Upstairs, downstairs
• Vegetable drawer
• Visit the ladies room
• War room (the place where war plans are directed)
• Welcome home
• White Room (Cream song)
• Wiggle room
• Working from home
• You Can't Go Home Again
• You shop, we drop (Tesco home delivery advertising slogan)
• You'd be so nice to come home to