Meal Phrases

Phrases

• A bite to eat
• A la car
• Al desko (eating one's lunch while still working)
• All you add is love (Ralston Purina Pet Food advertising slogan)
• Babies love it (Cow & Gate Milk Food advertising slogan)
• Bean feast
• Beef. It's what's for dinner (Cattlemen's Beef Board advertising slogan)
• Blue plate special (a set meal provided at a reduced price)
• Brown bag lunch
• Cannon fodder
• Carry out
• Chef de mission
• Chicken feed
• Chicken in a basket
• Chow down
• Comfort food
• Deja food
• Devil's food cake (A rich chocolate cake)
• Dinner and a movie
• Dinner date
• Dinner dinner dinner dinner dinner dinner dinner dinner, Batman!
• Dirty kitchen (An outdoor kitchen used for smelly food)
• Dish fit for the gods
• Dish of the day
• Dish out
• Dish the dirt
• Dish up
• Do you like hospital food?
• Doesn't your dog deserve ALPO? (Alpo Dog Food advertising slogan)
• Dog's dinner
• Don't treat your puppy like a dog (Ralston Purina Pet Food advertising slogan)
• Drip feed
• Eat in
• Eat out
• Eat up
• Eggs over easy
• Eight out of ten cats prefer it (Whiskas Cat Food advertising slogan)
• Enough is as good as a feast
• Everything but the kitchen sink
• Fast food and good for you (Egg Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• Feast or famine
• Feast your eyes on this
• Feed a cold and starve a fever
• Feed a dog its own tail
• Feed one's mind
• Feed the meter
• Feed the rat
• Finger food
• Food chain
• Food for thought
• Food miles
• Food of the gods
• Food, Folks and Fun (McDonald's advertising slogan)
• Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime
• Good talk saves the food
• Grab a bite to eat
• Greasy spoon (a small cheap cafe selling fried food)
• Grub Street hack
• Guess Who's Coming To Dinner? (Sidney Poitier / Spencer Tracy movie)
• Hail to the chef
• Have a bite to eat
• Heavy Lunch (Nickname of American football player Norman Hand)
• Heavy meal
• I married my husband for life, not for lunch
• 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
• Kitchen cabinet
• Kitchen sink drama
• Ladies who lunch
• Launch one's lunch
• Lay the table
• Let's do lunch
• Light lunch
• Liquid lunch
• Lose your lunch
• Make a meal of it
• Meal ticket
• Midnight feast
• Moveable feast
• Nothing else is Arthur's good (Arthur's Cat Food advertising slogan)
• Nowhere else but Burger Chef (Burger Chef advertising slogan)
• Off your food
• Out to lunch
• Oxo gives a meal man appeal (Oxo gravy advertising slogan)
• Portion control
• Power lunch
• Prolongs active life (PAL dog food advertising slogan)
• Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and Grub (A catchphrase from Trumpton)
• Put on a spread
• Rabbit food
• Real food for real people (The beef industry advertising slogan)
• Revenge is a dish best served cold
• Silver service (a method of serving food using silver cutlery)
• So Farley's, so good (Farley's Baby Food advertising slogan)
• Soul food
• Soup is good food (Campbell's Condensed Soup advertising slogan)
• Spectre at the feast
• Square meal
• Starve a cold, feed a fever
• Strap on the feed bag
• Table for two
• Taste, not waist (Weight Watchers Frozen Meals advertising slogan)
• Tastes so good cats ask for it by name (Meow Mix Cat food advertising slogan)
• The Delia Effect (increase in sales of food ingredients featured on Delia Smith's cookery shows)
• 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 dish ran away with the spoon (line from nursery rhyme)
• The sweet you can eat between meals without losing your appetite (Milky Way advertising slogan)
• There's fast food, and then there's KFC (KFC advertising slogan)
• There's no such thing as a free lunch
• Top breeders recommend it (Pedigree Chum Dog food advertising slogan)
• Tuck in
• Two sandwiches short of a picnic
• Wining and dining