Food-related Idioms and Expressions
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- a piece of cake
- very easy to do
- to beef up
- to bolster, improve
- full of beans
- feeling energetic, in high spirits; have a lot of (silly) energy
- go bananas
- to become highly excited, to behave in a crazy way
- go beet-red
- to become red in the face because you are embarrassed
- icing on the cake
- something that makes a good situation or activity even better
- hot potato
- a controversial or difficult subject
- cream of the crop
- the best
- bring home the bacon
- earn the income
- bad egg
- a person who is often in trouble
- couch potato
- a very lazy person
- polish the apple
- flatter someone
- big cheese
- an important person
- cool as a cucumber
- calm, not nervous/ anxious
- out of the frying pan and into the fire
- go from something bad to something worse
- beef about something
- complain about something
- eat like a bird
- to eat only a small mount of food
- packed in like sardines
- to be packed in very tightly
- cheesy
- predictable and unimaginative
- use your noodle
- use your brain
- smart cookie
- a very intelligent person
- (don't) cry over spilled milk
- get upset over something that has happened and cannot be changed
- (not my) cup of tea
- something you enjoy (usually used negatively)
- (have a) bun in the oven
- be pregnant
- Spill the beans
- tell others' secrets
- Easy as pie
- very easy to do something.
- Like a fish out of water
- to be uncomfortable in a particular situation.
- In the soup
- to be in serious trouble.
- Throw cold water on
- force to cancel something.
- A knuckle sandwich
- If you give someone a knuckle sandwich, you punch them.
- Mouth watery
- to be really delicious
- make one's mouth water
- look or smell very good, want to eat or drink very much
- cry over spilt milk
- cry or complain about something that has already happened
- cheesy
- silly
- bread and butter
- necessities, the main thing
- to be a butterfingers
- somebody who often drops things
- to walk on eggshells
- to try hard not to upset someone or something
- something is fishy
- something is suspicious
- Bad egg
- a bad person, bum
- Big cheese
- an important person; a leader
- Couch potato
- Lazy person
- Hot potato
- an argument that is controversial and difficult to settle
- spill the beans
- tell a secret to someone who is not supposed to know about it
- got egg on his face
- make mistakes that make him stupid
- a case of sour grapes
- pretends not to be impressed because of jealous
- A second bite of the cherry
- retry again