Talking Turkey--Thanksgiving Idioms

Let's talk turkey

• To talk about raising turkeys

• To talk about eating turkey sandwiches

• To talk about something openly and honestly

• To make a gobbling sound when you talk

He gobbled down his dinner.

• He ate his food really fast and greedily.

• He made gobbling sounds when he ate.

• He ate his food like a turkey.

• He put his dinner on the floor to eat it.

Her eyes were bigger than her stomach.

• She had huge, huge eyes.

• She had a very small stomach.

• She put more food on her plate than she was able to eat.

• She was looking at all the food on her plate.

Washing the dishes was a piece of cake.

• I washed away the cake on my plate.

• I washed the pan with the cake in it.

• I washed the pan that I made the cake in.

• It was super easy to wash all of the dishes.

The rest was just gravy.

• The rest was easy to do.

• The rest was just extra.

• The rest had gravy all over it.

• The rest looked a lot like gravy.

Mother told everyone to dig in!

• Mom told us that the time had come to eat our food.

• Mom told us to bury our food in the yard.

• Mom told us to dig a hole in our mashed potatoes.

• Mom told us to go out in the yard to find buried treasure.

They invited us to grab a bite after the game.

• They invited us to bite each other after the game.

• They invited us to go out to eat with them after the game.

• They invited us to a party where you played a game that required us to bite into apples.

• They invited us to grab a pair of false teeth after the game.

He must have had butter fingers when he dropped the ball.

• He must have put butter on his hands, which made him drop the ball.

• He must have put butter on the ball, which made him drop it.

• He must have tried to catch a ball made of butter.

• The ball slipped through his hands when he tried to catch it.

He was a couch potato on Thanksgiving, just watching the football games.

• He peeled potatoes while sitting on the couch while he watch the football game.

• He ate potatoes while he sat on the couch and watched the football game.

• He laid around all day watching the football games.

• He sat on a couch that looked like a potato and watched the football games.

She is one smart cookie!

• She is very clever.

• She likes to eat cookies.

• She has memorized the recipe for cookies.

• She likes to make cookies.