Mutton Phrases

Phrases

• A piece of meat
• And Dream of Sheep (Kate Bush song)
• As dead as mutton
• As deaf as a post
• As gentle as a lamb
• Baa baa black sheep have you any wool? (line from nursery rhyme)
• Be a lamb
• Beat your meat
• Black sheep of the family
• Buzzard meat
• Cold meat
• Counting sheep
• Dead meat
• Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? (Philip K. Dick book)
• Easy meat
• Everywhere that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go (line from nursery rhyme)
• In like a lion out like a lamb
• In two shakes of a lamb's tail
• It is meat and drink to me
• It's all meat, a real treat
• Lamb chop
• Lamb to the slaughter
• Like being savaged by a dead sheep
• Little Bo peep has lost her sheep (line from nursery rhyme)
• Make sheep's eyes at
• March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb
• Mary had a little lamb its fleece was white as snow (line from nursery rhyme)
• Meat and drink
• Meat and potatoes
• Meat and two veg
• Meat head
• Meat is murder
• Meat market
• Meat packer
• Meat wagon
• Mutton dressed as lamb
• Mystery meat
• One man's meat is another man's poison
• One may as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb
• Plates of meat (Cockney rhyming slang for feet)
• Pork, the other white meat (National Pork Council advertising slogan)
• Rubber chicken curcuit (a speaking or fundraising event at which poor quality meat is served)
• Separate the sheep from the goats
• The lion may lie down with the lamb, but the lamb won't get much sleep (Woody Allen line)
• The sheep's in the meadow the cow's in the corn (line from nursery rhyme)
• Two shakes of a lamb's tail
• Wolf in sheep's clothing