Oil Phrases

Phrases

• Arab Spring
• Bread always falls butter side down
• Bread and butter
• Bring out the Hellmann's, and bring out the best (Hellmann's Mayonnaise advertising slogan)
• Burn the midnight oil
• Butter Face
• Butter and egg man
• Butter fingers
• Butter up
• Butter wouldn't melt in her mouth
• Can you tell Stork from butter? (Stork Margarine advertising slogan)
• Choosy Moms choose Jif (Jif Peanut Butter advertising slogan)
• Drill, baby, drill
• Elbow grease
• Extra virgin
• Fat berg (a solid mass of grease in a sewer)
• Fine words butter no parsnips
• Grease monkey
• Grease the wheels
• Grease your palm
• Greasy kid's stuff
• Guns before butter (Political slogan)
• It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease
• Lard ass
• Lawrence Of Arabia (Nickname of T E Lawrence and Peter O'Toole movie)
• Liquid engineering (Castrol Motor Oil advertising slogan)
• My cup runneth over
• No oil painting
• Oil Can (Nickname of Dennis Boyd)
• Oil and water don't mix
• Oil the wheels
• Olive branch
• Pour oil on troubled waters
• The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (Autobiography of T E Lawrence (of Arabia))
• Towel head (derogatory slang term referring to an Arab man)
• Tub of lard
• You'll never put a better bit of butter on your knife (Country Life butter advertising slogan)