a little bit of bread and no cheese
English
Interjection
a little bit of bread and no cheese
- (UK, idiomatic, onomatopoeic) the song of the yellowhammer.
- 1896, Edward Marston, By meadow and stream: pleasant memories of pleasant places
- It is delightful to hear the yellowhammer's song — his only song : "A little bit of bread and no cheese."
- 1937, Lovely places I remember (in The Rotarian, volume 50, number 2, February 1937)
- "A little bit of bread and no cheese!" cry the yellowhammers petulantly. But no one takes any notice of them.
- 1896, Edward Marston, By meadow and stream: pleasant memories of pleasant places