Spice Phrases

Phrases

• Above the salt
• As keen as mustard
• At last. A pickle that bites back (Marcus Valley Pickles advertising slogan)
• Back to the salt mine
• Be a Pepper. Drink Dr Pepper (Dr Pepper advertising slogan)
• Below the salt
• Bring out the Branston! (Branston Pickle advertising slogan)
• C'mon Colman's, light my fire (Colman's Mustard advertising slogan)
• Cinnamon Girl (Neil Young song)
• Cinnamon toast
• Closed season
• Cut the mustard
• Eleven secret herbs and spices (claim made for the recipe of Kentucky Fried Chicken)
• For everything there is a season
• Ginger Beer (Cockney rhyming slang for queer)
• Ginger up
• Girl power
• Good for Life! (Dr Pepper advertising slogan)
• High season (the most popular time to visit a resort or attraction - when prices are highest)
• In a pickle
• In season
• It was twenty years ago today Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play (Beatles song lyric)
• Mace your face
• Mean Mr. Mustard (Beatles song)
• Off season
• Old salt
• Open season
• Party season
• Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper
• Pretty pickle
• Row up Salt River
• Rub salt in the wound
• Salt away
• Salt of the earth
• Savour the flavour of Belgium (Flanders, Belgium advertising slogan)
• Season of goodwill
• Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness (from a poem by Keats)
• See how it runs! (Cerebos salt advertising slogan)
• Silly season
• Spice things up
• Sugar and spice and all things nice that's what little girls are made of (line from nursery rhyme)
• Take it with a grain of salt
• Take with a grain of salt
• Take with a pinch of salt
• The Ginger Man (play by JP Donleavy)
• The Ginger Ninja (Nickname of Paul Scholes)
• The Wild Horse of the Osage (Nickname of Pepper Martin)
• The festive season
• The flavour of a Quaver is never known to waver (Quavers advertising slogan)
• The glorious twelfth (of August - the start of the British grouse shooting season)
• The mark of a man (Old Spice aftershave advertising slogan)
• The thrill of Roses Spiced with excitement Speaking of love (Old Spice advertising slogan)
• To every thing there is a season
• Top Hat (Fred Astaire / Ginger Rogers movie)
• Variety is the spice of life
• What's the worst that can happen? (Dr Pepper advertising slogan)
• When it rains, it pours (Morton Salt advertising slogan)
• Worthy of its salt
• Your best bet for a fuller flavour (Carling Black Label advertising slogan)