Wheat Phrases

Phrases

• A drowning man will clutch at a straw
• Acknowledge the corn
• Against the grain
• Bet you can't eat three (Shredded Wheat advertising slogan)
• Breakfast of Champions (Wheaties Cereal advertising slogan)
• Bumper crop
• Can of corn (A baseball expression meaning a ball which is easy to catch)
• Corn and cluck for a buck (Kentucky Fried Chicken advertising slogan)
• Corn fed
• Cream of the crop ()
• Crop up
• Crunchy wheat, nicely sweet (Kellogg's advertising slogan)
• Does it make sense to jump out of a warm bed into a cold cereal? (Quaker Oats advertising slogan)
• Earn your corn
• Feel your oats
• Go against the grain
• Gotta have my pops! (Corn Pops advertising slogan)
• Graded grains make finer flour (Homepride Flour advertising slogan)
• Grain of truth
• Have you had your Weetabix (Weetabix advertising slogan)
• Last straw
• Man of straw
• Mikey likes it (Life cereal advertising slogan)
• Neck and crop
• Roar, Boys, Roar, It tastes like more, What a flavor, Zippity-zow - its grand - and HOW (Grape-Nuts Flakes Cereal advertising slogan)
• Sort the wheat from the chaff
• Sow your wild oats
• Straw Dogs (Dustin Hoffman / Sam Peckinpah movie)
• Straw man
• Take it with a grain of salt
• Take with a grain of salt
• The Corn State (Nickname of the US state of Iowa)
• The cereal that's shot from guns! (Quaker Puffed Wheat advertising slogan)
• The cream of the crop
• The last straw that broke the camel's back
• The one and only cereal that comes in the shape of animals (Crispy Critters advertising slogan)
• The sheep's in the meadow the cow's in the corn (line from nursery rhyme)
• Withabix, withoutabix (Weetabix advertising slogan)
• You can't make bricks without straw