Luncheon Phrases

Phrases

• A bite to eat
• A piece of meat
• Al desko (eating one's lunch while still working)
• All you can eat
• Beat your meat
• Beef. It's what's for dinner (Cattlemen's Beef Board advertising slogan)
• Bet you can't eat three (Shredded Wheat advertising slogan)
• Betcha can't eat just one (Lay's potato chips advertising slogan)
• Big fish eat little fish
• Bite to eat
• Blue plate special (a set meal provided at a reduced price)
• Brown bag lunch
• Buzzard meat
• Cold meat
• Come to the Central Park Zoo Cafeteria. Let the animals watch you eat for a change (Central Park Zoo advertising slogan)
• Dead meat
• Dinner and a movie
• Dinner date
• Dinner dinner dinner dinner dinner dinner dinner dinner, Batman!
• Do you eat the red ones last? (Smarties advertising slogan)
• Dog does not eat dog
• Dog eat dog
• Dog's dinner
• Easy meat
• Eat a balanced diet
• Eat and run
• Eat crow
• Eat dirt
• Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we die
• Eat face
• Eat fresh (Subway advertising slogan)
• Eat humble pie
• Eat in
• Eat lead sucker
• Eat like a bird
• Eat like a horse
• Eat like a pig
• Eat my dust
• Eat my shorts (A catchphrase from The Simpsons)
• Eat out
• Eat out of someone's hand
• Eat shit and die
• Eat someone alive
• Eat to live
• Eat to live, not live to eat
• Eat up
• Eat your heart out
• Eat your words

• For goodness sake, eat golden flake (Golden Flake Potato Chips advertising slogan)
• Good enough to eat
• Grab a bite to eat
• Guess Who's Coming To Dinner? (Sidney Poitier / Spencer Tracy movie)
• Have a bite to eat
• Heavy Lunch (Nickname of American football player Norman Hand)
• Heavy meal
• I could eat a horse
• I married my husband for life, not for lunch
• I'll eat my hat
• It is meat and drink to me
• It sits as lightly on a heavy meal as it does on your conscience (Jell-O Gelatin Dessert advertising slogan)
• It's all meat, a real treat
• Jack Sprat could eat no fat (line from nursery rhyme)
• Ladies who lunch
• Launch one's lunch
• Let them eat cake (Marie Antoinette quotation - attributed)
• Let's do lunch
• Light lunch
• Liquid lunch
• Live to eat
• Lose your lunch
• Make a meal of it
• Meal ticket
• Meat and drink
• Meat and potatoes
• Meat and two veg
• Meat head
• Meat is murder
• Meat market
• Meat packer
• Meat wagon
• Mystery meat
• One man's meat is another man's poison
• Out to lunch
• Oxo gives a meal man appeal (Oxo gravy advertising slogan)
• Plates of meat (Cockney rhyming slang for feet)
• Pork, the other white meat (National Pork Council advertising slogan)
• Power lunch
• Rubber chicken curcuit (a speaking or fundraising event at which poor quality meat is served)
• Square meal
• The King and Queen Might Eat Thereof and Noblemen Besides (Jell-O Gelatin Dessert advertising slogan)
• The Meal Ticket (Nickname of Pau Gasol)
• The sweet you can eat between meals without losing your appetite (Milky Way advertising slogan)
• There's no such thing as a free lunch
• Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies (Beatles song lyric)
• You are what you eat
• You can't eat scenery
• You can't have your cake and eat it too