The "Breakfast of Champions" is not an idiom. It's advertising. It may have been used in advertising in the past, but that doesn't mean it hasn't become an idiom since. Certainly in the UK, where the aforementioned advertisements were never shown nor the cereal in question ever marketed at all apparently , its usage is far more likely to be idiomatic, or as a reference to the Kurt Vonnegut novel, than it is to be a reference to a foreign advertising campaign that ran over 50 years ago.
Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Jay Jay It is also a novel by the American author Kurt Vonnegut. I've never read the novel, but I see there's a Wikipedia page on it that includes the statement, "The title, taken from the well-known slogan for Wheaties breakfast cereal, crops up in a key scene late in the novel when a waitress, apparently ironically, says "Breakfast of Champions" each time she serves a customer a martini.
It was a phrase used for meaning a hearty breakfast of things like eggs, biscuits, sausage, gravy. Wheaties figured they had sports figures hence they could borrow it and also imply that their cereal would replace that hearty meal at no cost to said champion.
Great advertising. Because I'm not seeing it. DigitalChris - Ngram is a tool not a fact. I went to school for advertising and specifically remember Wheaties example in the late 30s early 40s.
They were having trouble having it trademarked because the phrase was in existence. Why it wasn't in a book that google scanned. I don't know. Fred US English. Tessa South African. How to say breakfast of champions in sign language? Numerology Chaldean Numerology The numerical value of breakfast of champions in Chaldean Numerology is: 8 Pythagorean Numerology The numerical value of breakfast of champions in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4. Examples of breakfast of champions in a Sentence Nick Seitz : The breakfast of champions is not cereal, it's the opposition.
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Create a new account. Log In. Powered by CITE. Are we missing a good definition for breakfast of champions? Don't keep it to yourself Submit Definition. The ASL fingerspelling provided here is most commonly used for proper names of people and places; it is also used in some languages for concepts for which no sign is available at that moment. There are obviously specific signs for many words available in sign language that are more appropriate for daily usage. I recently encountered this term, "Breakfast of Champions", and I don't know what it means.
I Googled it and found different definitions. One source says it's alcohol upon waking, some other source says it's coffee, yet another source says it's lucky charms.
Context: I started a thread asking people what they usually had for breakfast. Someone replied: " I usually don't eat anything. Just drink an almond milk green shake and wait until lunch time to eat. I like coffee as well. Black, no sugar ". To which someone else said: " Not the Breakfast of Champions?
Coors and Cornflakes "? Questions: 1. What does Breakfast of Champions consist of? What is the cultural significance of this term? As in, what do people mean when they say someone has Breakfast of Champions? If I were to guess, it probably means someone who does foolish things.
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