tube steak
A frankfurter/hot dog.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
“We grilled some tube steak for lunch.”
“The kids were hungry after the game, so we stopped at the stand for some tube steak.”
“The roadside diner served a surprisingly decent tube steak, despite the rather unappealing appearance of the establishment.”
A rhyming allusion to cube steak, derived from the item's cylindrical shape.
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all sizzle and no steak
A thing or person which fails to measure up to its description or advance promotion.
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go down the tubes
Synonym of go down the toilet: to fail; to degenerate rapidly.
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put the toothpaste back in the tube
To revert a situation; to put things back as they were before something (usually an unwelcome thing) became a reality.
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toothpaste is out of the tube
A situation that cannot be recovered or reversed back to its original state.
Last updated August 10, 2026