Winner winner, chicken dinner – just celebratory, supposedly originates in the old days when the payout at horse race track slot machines was roughly equivalent to the cost of the chicken dinner at the same establishment
The juice ain’t worth the squeeze – the outcome of what you’ll get isn’t worth the effort to do it
I’ll try to get into the meat and potatoes of it because making up lists is my bread and butter. When it comes to wordplay, I’m the cream of the crop, even if most of these examples are kind of cheesy. I try not to waffle. I’m just cherry picking some of the good ones. You’ve gotten yourself into a pickle, and now you’re toast, because I’m going to spill the beans and give you the sauce you’re looking for.
Lots of great examples here but didn’t see ‘lemon laws’, a colloquial term for laws pertaining to products, specifically automobiles, which do not live up to expectations.
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You can’t have your cake and eat it too.
Easy peasy lemon squeezy.
Apple of my eye.
Icing on the cake
Bring home the bacon.
Have your cake and eat it.
Like taking candy from a baby.
Well, butter my biscuits! (Southern exclamation of dismay.)
Holy guacamole
Okeydokie artichoke-y
Uh oh, spaghettios
Butter my butt and call me a biscuit.
It is an old southern phrase. It means something is unbelievable. It is a positive phrase.
Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.
Egg on your face
Walking on eggshells
…can you guess what I’m having for breakfast?
Spill the Beans
What am I, chopped liver?
Sour grapes
The Big Cheese!
Who cut the cheese?
Who pissed in your cheerios?
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
Mind your biscuits
(and life will be gravy)
In a pickle/jam
Bringing home the bacon
Take it with a grain of salt (idk if a grain of salt is exactly food, but it still fits)
Butter someone up
Have egg on your face
The apple of my eye
Two peas in a pod
Bigger fish to fry
Taking candy from a baby
Cool as a cucumber
Bread winner
bringing home the bacon
winner winner chicken dinner
Full of beans
Spill the beans
Have bigger fish to fry
Top banana
(Caveat: I’m not sure any of these are specifically American in origin, but they are used in America)
The whole enchilada
Winner winner, chicken dinner – just celebratory, supposedly originates in the old days when the payout at horse race track slot machines was roughly equivalent to the cost of the chicken dinner at the same establishment
The juice ain’t worth the squeeze – the outcome of what you’ll get isn’t worth the effort to do it
Flat as a pancake
Sweet as honey
Sell like hotcakes
piece of the pie
Calling someone a fruitcake
Pretty as a peach
Gimme some sugar
Cake walk
All that and a bag of chips
American or English in general?
•An apple a day keeps the doctor away
•Top banana
•Cool beans
•The blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice
•Blackberry winter
•Carrot and stick
•Who pissed in your Cheerios?
•Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs
•One tough cookie / one smart cookie
•Don’t put all your eggs in one basket
•A few French fries short of a Happy Meal
•You catch more flies with honey than vinegar
•I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream
•When life gives you lemons, make lemonade
•In a pickle
•Tough titty said the kitty, but the milk’s still good
•Go together like peas and carrots
•Hotter than a pepper sprout
•Word salad
•Soup sandwich
•Hot tamale
•Country as a turnip green
•Heads up 7 Up
All that and a bowl of soup.
hot diggity dog
Well I’ll be dipped in shit and rolled in cracker crumbs. (To express surprise)
spill the tea
hot dog! as an exclamation
Hold my hotdish
Not worth beans
I am sweatier/hotter than a nun in a cucumber patch.
Apologies.
Let’s blow this popsicle stand.
(Let’s go)
Cool beans
Let ‘er rip, tater chip
Piece of cake.
Easy as pie
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
Everything is peaches and cream.
Suck eggs!
Who licked the red off your candy?
Baloney! Meaning it’s fake or deceptive.
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She’s hotter than donut grease.
Can of corn
Who cut the cheese.
“That’s the way the cookie crumbles.”
Well, butter my buns and call me a biscuit!
Let’s get this bread!
“That doesn’t cut the mustard.” (doesn’t meet standards)
“Pretty please, with a cherry on top?”
Time to make the donuts?
From popular media and used in a joking manner:
Chopin’ broccoli 🎶 -SNL
running through the house with a pickle in my mouth -Misbehavin’ -Righteous Gemstones
To know which side one’s bread is buttered on.
pie in the sky
milking it for all it’s worth
that’s how the sausage gets made
what do you want, a cookie?
give that man a cookie
when life gives you lemons, make lemonade
He’s not “worth his salt”.
Winner winner chicken dinner
You got fries wit dat shake
Cheddar is slang for money
Clams and oysters, too
“my goose is getting cooked”
“Just peachy…”
You’re a smart cookie
That’s the way the cookie crumbles
Good apple or bad apple
it’s a piece of cake
I’m in a pickle!
I’ll bet you dollars to doughnut holes.
Cool beans.
Will be all over you like white on rice
Upsetti spaghetti 🤗
Its not going to be peaches and gravy all the time
Smart cookie
Give her the Beans (hit the gas pedal)
Spill the tea
Holy frijole!
Well butter my butt and call me a biscuit!
You’re bananas
Hot dog!
The term 3-way has a very specific food meaning in the Cincinnati area.
American as apple pie
Peachy keen
What a bunch of bologna
Life is like a bowl of cherries
How the sausage is made.
Don’t cry over spilled milk.
I hope this doesn’t fall flat as a pancake.
I’ll try to get into the meat and potatoes of it because making up lists is my bread and butter. When it comes to wordplay, I’m the cream of the crop, even if most of these examples are kind of cheesy. I try not to waffle. I’m just cherry picking some of the good ones. You’ve gotten yourself into a pickle, and now you’re toast, because I’m going to spill the beans and give you the sauce you’re looking for.
My last example was just the icing on the cake.
How do you like those apples?
Kind of corny, isn’t it?
Did you digest any of this word salad?
As Americans as apple pie
All that and a bag of chips
Bring me another Oreo. (I’m American and just made that up…)
I didn’t fall off a turnip truck
Lots of great examples here but didn’t see ‘lemon laws’, a colloquial term for laws pertaining to products, specifically automobiles, which do not live up to expectations.
Something that has had a drastic change in esteem or accuracy since first introduced has either “aged like fine wine” or “aged like milk”.
Slower than molasses.
“I wouldn’t throw her out of bed for eating crackers”
Good gravy! has joined my lexicon here lately as clean up my language in mixed company.
“everything else is gravy” or similar phrases
Used to say that you have attained your primary objective, and whatever else comes is a pleasant extra.
(Catching an easy pop up in baseball) “ Can of Corn!”
Go teach your grandmother to suck eggs.