Tablespoon Phrases

Phrases

• At knife point
• Before you could say knife
• Born with a silver spoon in his mouth
• Bring to the table
• Contingency table (A matrix of numbers illustrating the correlation of one variable with another)
• Don't mix business with pleasure
• Drunk under the table
• Egg and spoon race
• Fork out
• Fork the tree
• Get round the table
• Get your feet under the table
• Go under the knife
• Greasy spoon (a small cheap cafe selling fried food)
• Half measure
• He who sups with the Devil should use a long spoon
• If all the world were Jell-O, And whipped cream filled the sea, Then the only spoon from here to the moon Would have to belong to me (Jell-O Gelatin Dessert advertising slogan)
• In the mix
• Knife and fork it
• Lay the table
• Lay your cards on the table
• Mac the Knife (Nickname of Harold Macmillan)
• Mack The Knife (Bertold Brecht song)
• Made to measure
• Measure for Measure

• Measure twice, cut once
• Measure up
• Mix and match
• Not the sharpest knife in the drawer
• Oil and water don't mix
• On a knife edge
• On the table
• Only the best for the Captain's table (Birdseye advertising slogan)
• Put bread on the table
• Put your cards on the table
• Rip mix burn (Apple Computer advertising slogan)
• Round table talks
• Round the table
• Silver service (a method of serving food using silver cutlery)
• Table Mountain (tourist attraction in South Africa)
• Table for two
• Tastes so good cats ask for it by name (Meow Mix Cat food advertising slogan)
• That's not a knife; that's a knife (Crocodile Dundee)
• The crumbs from a rich man's table
• The dish ran away with the spoon (line from nursery rhyme)
• Top table
• Trail mix
• Twist the knife
• Win the wooden spoon
• You could have cut the atmosphere with a knife
• You'll never put a better bit of butter on your knife (Country Life butter advertising slogan)