• “Adam and Eve on a raft and wreck ’em”: two scrambled eggs on toast
• “Burn one, take it through the garden, and pin a rose on it”: hamburger with lettuce, tomato, and onion
• “Burn the British and draw one in the dark”: English muffin, toasted, with black coffee
• “Adam’s ale, hold the hail”: water, no ice
• “Give it shoes”: an order to go
• “Honeymoon salad”: “lettuce alone”
• “Life preservers”: doughnuts
• “Noah’s boy on bread”: ham sandwich
• “Put out the lights and cry”: liver and onions
• “Zeppelins in a fog”: sausages and mashed potatoes

In 1838 James Fenimore Cooper wrote, “The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.”