Gag me with a spoon song meaning1/9/2024 ![]() ![]() ![]() whitebread: a slang adjective used to describe someone whose tastes are bland and culturally mainstream, or things associated with such a person.bread line: a queue to receive food from a charitable organization.“give us this day our daily bread:” a line from the Lord’s Prayer, a prayer recited by Christian church-goers.The Little Red Hen: a fairy tale about a hard-working, wheat-growing, flour-grinding, bread-baking hen who gets no help from her lazy companions, who prefer to loaf.“Half a loaf is better than low bred:” a joke made by John Steed in The Avengers episode “ The Correct Way to Kill”.half a loaf is better than no bread or half a loaf is better than none: an expression meaning, roughly “getting something is better than getting nothing”.The Pillsbury Doughboy: an anthropomorphic wad of dough used to sell products for Pillsbury.dough: a mixture of flour, water and other ingredients used to bake bread, as in “I’ll knead some dough to bake bread.”.dough: another term for “bread” as in “I’ll need some dough to buy bread”.breadwinner: one who earns money for a household.“bumped his head on a piece of bread”: a line from the song/nursery rhyme “It’s raining, it’s pouring” in the version I learned as a child (though not in more commonly known versions).“Breaking Bread,” a song by Johnny Cash.break bread: an expression meaning “have a meal together with people”.This year, I want to make sure we include bread (and a few other bready baked goods) in our ongoing ThThTh feast. ![]() In previous years, I’ve set the table with utensils, and served up some turkeys. Today is Thanksgiving in the US, a holiday marked primarily by having a large meal together with family and/or loved ones. Mostly what I hear is “Asses, asses, we fall down.” I don’t recall seeing that one on the Wiki page.Ĭradle falling image from The Only True Mother Goose Melodies, by Munroe & Francis, 1833, found on the Gutenberg Project. Theo has been reciting a version of this lately. ☺pparently there are many different versions of this, some of which don’t even involve falling down. ² There are loads more real idioms involving falling ¹ Clearly I’ve been falling down on the job with my ThThTh posts, seeing as the last one I posted was in December.
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