rabbit food

rabbit food

slang Any salad greens, usually lettuce. I don't know how you can eat a whole plate of rabbit food like that. I would need some meat and potatoes on my plate, at least! Care for any rabbit food? It's good for you!
See also: food, rabbit
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

rabbit food

n. lettuce; salad greens. Rabbit food tends to have a lot of vitamin C.
See also: food, rabbit
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions

rabbit food

Raw vegetables, especially lettuce. Dating from the first half of the 1900s, the term is sometimes used disparagingly by those who prefer more solid sustenance, but also positively by those who are dieting or find such food has great health benefits. For example, “What dessert? There’s nothing but rabbit food in her lunch box,” or “I’ve lost ten pounds by eating rabbit food at just about every meal.”
See also: food, rabbit
The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
See also:
  • clean (one's) plate (up)
  • clean plate
  • eat (one's) greens
  • grass
  • buy the rabbit
  • eat fill
  • eat (one's) fill
  • toss a salad
  • toss salad
  • the meat and potatoes
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This compresses it into pellets like rabbit food, which are blended with PE diaper tailings, pigment and fillers, and extruded as white, black or orange fence posts in a highly automated plant where robots lift posts in and out of cooling tanks.
The fuel looks a lot like feed-store rabbit food, and according to the Association of Pellet Fuel Industries, a ton of pellets has about the same heating value as a cord and a half of firewood.
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Nowadays there is definitely more to a salad than just lettuce, tomatoes and cucumber, you can pretty much add anything to a salad - pasta, fruit, pulses, grains, meat, so it's not just all leaves or rabbit food.
This week we are appealing for puppy food, kitten food, robust dog toys and rabbit food.
Served in the kind of jar with lid that must be hard to clean, the "slaw" resembled rabbit food and was tasteless.
What you need to do is keep things interesting, so you don't feel that all you're doing is eating rabbit food every meal.
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They only carry one type of rabbit food and he seems to do well with their feed.
London, Apr 20 ( ANI ): Scarlett Johansson has revealed that she went on a ''rabbit food'' diet to fit into a sexy catsuit.
He eats rabbit food from the vet and loves carrots.
The brown bunny was discovered in the town's railway station car park on Saturday morning Rabbit food had been left inside the holdall as well as a distinctive pink handbag.
I'd get really excited about getting something to eat at meal times and then realise it was just rabbit food.
David has been limiting his intake of red meat and chomping down on vast quantities of rabbit food.