Ladle Phrases

Phrases

• Born with a silver spoon in his mouth
• Bucket and spade holiday
• Call a spade a shovel
• Call a spade a spade
• Egg and spoon race
• Fly now. Shovel later (Eastern Airlines advertising slogan)
• Full scoop
• Get the scoop
• 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)
• Inside scoop
• Lay it on with a trowel
• Like shit off a shovel
• Poop and scoop
• Shovel ready (a building project in which all the preliminaries have been arranged)
• Spade work
• The dish ran away with the spoon (line from nursery rhyme)
• What a scoop
• Win the wooden spoon