greasy spoon

Old red vinyl booths, coffee in the pot, the traditional greasy spoon menu of mostly gravy.

Using a heatproof slotted spoon, remove the shallots to a paper towel-lined plate.

No congratulations for those who were born with a silver spoon in their mouths and then blame the poor for being poor.

“The spoon was a tool for foreshadowing,” the Facebook page explains.

It was full of the sorts of people I used to be when I watched him on MuchMusic—bored, greasy-fingered teenagers.

As the song from Mary Poppins explains, “A spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down.”

So after a few minutes I remarked to him, "Everything tastes very sweet out of this spoon!"

Had put on her Sunday gown, and had nothing to do now but hold up her head high, and sup her soup out of a silver spoon.

We don't even have real big prizes—just a dinky little spoon sitting up on the mantel-piece to excite us as if it was a tiara.

Ralph Towne, M.D., he was replying, he was born with a gold spoon in his pretty mouth!

Level the seed in the spoon with a knife-blade, like measuring grain in a half-bushel.