Food Idioms (Page 2)
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- Don't cry over spilt milk
- When something bad happens and nothing can be done to help it people say, 'Don't cry over spilt milk'.
- Dropped like a hot cake
- If something is dropped like a hot cake, it is rejected or disposed of very quickly.
- Duck soup
- (USA) If something is duck soup, it is very easy.
- Easy as beans
- Something that is so easy that anyone can do it is easy as beans.
- Easy as pie
- If something is easy as pie, it is very easy indeed.
- Easy peasy
- (UK) If something is easy peasy, it is very easy indeed. ('Easy peasy, lemon squeezy' is also used.)
- Eat humble pie
- If someone apologises and shows a lot of contrition for something they have done, they eat humble pie.
- Eat someone alive
- If you eat someone alive, you defeat or beat them comprehensively.
- Eat something for breakfast
- If you eat something for breakfast, you can do it effortlessly, and if you eat someone for breakfast, you can beat them easily.
- Egg on your face
- If someone has egg on their face, they are made to look foolish or embarrassed.
- Eye candy
- When a person is very attractive, they can be described as eye candy - sweet to look at!
- Fair suck of the sauce bottle
- (AU) If you demand a fair suck of the sauce bottle, the other person is being unreasonable in what they are asking or suggesting you do. ('Fair suck of the sav' is also used.)
- Fall off the turnip truck
- (USA) If someone has just fallen off the turnip truck, they are uninformed, naive and gullible. (Often used in the negative)
- Fine words butter no parsnips
- This idiom means that it's easy to talk, but talk is not action.
- Finger in the pie
- If you have a finger in the pie, you have an interest in something.
- Fish in troubled waters
- Someone who fishes in troubled waters tries to takes advantage of a shaky or unstable situation. The extremists were fishing in troubled waters during the political uncertainty in the country.
- Flat as a pancake
- It is so flat that it is like a pancake- there is no head on that beer it is as flat as a pancake.
- Food for thought
- If something is food for thought, it is worth thinking about or considering seriously.
- Forbidden fruit
- Something enjoyable that is illegal or immoral is forbidden fruit.
- From soup to nuts
- If you do something from soup to nuts, you do it from the beginning right to the very end.
- Full of beans
- If someone's full of beans, they are very energetic.
- Glutton for punishment
- If a person is described as a glutton for punishment, the happily accept jobs and tasks that most people would try to get out of. A glutton is a person who eats a lot.
- Go bananas
- If you go bananas, you are wild with excitement, anxiety, or worry.
- Go fry an egg
- (USA) This is used to tell someone to go away and leave you alone.
- Go nuts
- If someone goes nuts, they get excited over something.
- Go pear-shaped
- (UK) If things have gone wrong, they have gone pear-shaped.
- Go pound salt
- (USA) This means 'Get lost' or 'Go away'('Go pound sand' is also used.)
- Gone pear-shaped
- (UK) If things have gone pear-shaped they have either gone wrong or produced an unexpected and unwanted result.
- Good egg
- A person who can be relied on is a good egg. Bad egg is the opposite.
- Grain of salt
- If you should take something with a grain of salt, you shouldn't necessarily believe it all. ('pinch of salt' is an alternative)
- Gravy train
- If someone is on the gravy train, they have found and easy way to make lots of money.
- Half a loaf is better than no bread
- It means that getting part of what you want is better than getting nothing at all.
- Hard cheese
- (UK) Hard cheese means hard luck.
- Have your cake and eat it too
- If someone wants to have their cake and eat it too, they want everything their way, especially when their wishes are contradictory.
- Have your lunch handed to you
- If you have you lunch handed to you, you are outperformed and shown up by someone better.
- Hot potato
- A problem or issue that is very controversial and no one wants to deal with is a hot potato.
- How do you like them apples
- (USA) This idiomatic expression is used to express surprise or shock at something that has happened. It can also be used to boast about something you have done.
- I should cocoa
- (UK) This idiom comes from 'I should think so', but is normally used sarcastically to mean the opposite.
- Icing on the cake
- This expression is used to refer to something good that happens on top of an already good thing or situation.
- If you are given lemons make lemonade
- Always try and make the best out of a bad situation. With some ingenuity you can make a bad situation useful.
- In a nutshell
- This idiom is used to introduce a concise summary.
- In a pickle
- If you are in a pickle, you are in some trouble or a mess.
- In the gravy
- If you're in the gravy, you're rich and make money easily.
- In the soup
- If you're in the soup, you're in trouble.
- It's no use crying over spilt milk
- This idiom means that getting upset after something has gone wrong is pointless; it can't be changed so it should be accepted.
- Jam on your face
- If you say that someone has jam on their face, they appear to be caught, embarrassed or found guilty.
- Jam tomorrow
- (UK) This idiom is used when people promise good things for the future that will never come.
- Keen as mustard
- (UK) If someone is very enthusiastic, they are as keen as mustard.
- Know which side one's bread is buttered on
- If you know which side one's bread is buttered on, you know where your interests lie and will act accordingly to protect or further them.
- Know your onions
- If someone is very well-informed about something, they know their onions.
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