Meanings
wheaties1
- pluralplural of wheatie
Wheaties2
- A manufactured breakfast cereal made of a wheat and bran mixture baked into flakes.
Drugs were my Wheaties. My breakfast of champions. They made me feel fortified.
2005, Christopher Kennedy Lawford, Symptoms of Withdrawal, William Morrow and Co., page 1592 more examples
Sometimes when I'm feeling my Wheaties, I want to be the one to go out and experiment, and I expect the drummer to help me by keeping it down.
1993, Marcus Miller, edited by Tom Mulhern, Bass Heroes, Backbeat Books, page 34For the first time in the history of the Cinematic Jesus, the traditional barriers that relegated Catholic sensibilities to European-produced films, for example, Il vangelo Matteo (1966), are removed, and Catholic piety becomes as mainstream as Wheaties.
2006, Stephenson Humphries-Brooks, Cinematic Savior, Greenwood Publishing Group, page 79
Origin
Diminutive plural from wheat + -ie + -s; also evocative of wheaty, connoting little wheaty things.
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