Food Idioms

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Food Idioms: Examples and Explanations

  • Apple of his eye - A favorite

  • As busy as popcorn on a skillet - Very active

  • As easy as apple pie - Something simple

  • As flat as a pancake - Very flat

  • As hungry as a bear - Very hungry

  • As nutty as a fruitcake - Crazy

  • As slow as molasses in January - Very slow

  • As sour as vinegar - Disagreeable

  • As sweet as honey - Very sweet

  • As thick as pea soup - Very thick

  • As warm as toast - Very warm

  • Bad apple - Bad person

  • Bear fruit - Get results

  • Big cheese - Important person

  • Big enchilada - Important thing or person

  • Bite off more than you can chew - Try to do more than you can handle

  • Bite the hand that feeds you - Act badly to someone who helps you

  • Bitter pill to swallow - Hard to take

  • Bread and butter - Basic needs

  • Bring home the bacon - Earn a living

  • Butter up - Flatter someone to get something

  • Buy a lemon - Buy something worthless

  • Chew the fat - Talk

  • Coffee break - A break from work to eat or drink

  • Compare apples and oranges - Compare things that are very different

  • Cook his goose - Damage or affect negatively

  • Cook up a storm - Cook a large quantity

  • Cool as a cucumber - Doesn’t get easily upset

  • Couch potato - Someone who watches a lot of TV

  • Cream of the crop - The best

  • Cut the mustard - Do what is necessary

  • Cry over spilt milk - Worry about something in the past

  • Drop like a hot potato - To immediately stop

  • Eat crow - Admit a mistake

  • Eat dirt - Be humble

  • Eat high on the hog - Eat fine food

  • Eat humble pie - To apologize

  • Eat like a bird - Eat a small amount

  • Eat like a horse - Eat a lot

  • Eat one's heart out - To be jealous

  • Eat out - Dine in a restaurant

  • Eat out of her hands - Do what she wants

  • Eat us out of house and home - Eat a lot

  • Eat your words - Take back words

  • Egg on - Urge someone

  • Either feast or famine - Either too much or not enough

  • Everything from soup to nuts - A wide variety of items

  • Fat is in the fire - Big problem

  • Fine kettle of fish - A mess

  • Finger in the pie - Participating

  • Food for thought - Something to think about

  • Forbidden fruit - Something banned

  • For peanuts - Inexpensive

  • Full of beans - Feel energetic

  • Go bananas - Excited or crazy

  • Goose is cooked - Finished or in trouble

  • Gravy train - Well-paying job

  • Greatest thing since sliced bread - Something that is excellent

  • Half a loaf is better than none - Something is better than nothing

  • Half-baked - Not thought through

  • Hand to someone on a silver platter - Cater to someone

  • Hard nut to crack - Difficult person

  • Have a lot on one's plate - Very busy

  • Have a sweet tooth - Like sweet foods

  • Have bigger fish to fry - Have more important things to do

  • Have egg on your face - Be embarrassed

  • Have one's cake and eat it too - Having something both ways

  • In a nutshell - In summary

  • In a pickle - In trouble

  • Life is a bowl of cherries - Life is good

  • Like taking candy from a baby - Easy to do

  • Like two peas in a pod - Very similar

  • Meat and potatoes - Basics, simple food

  • Melt in one's mouth - Delicious

  • Not for all the tea in China - Not for any price

  • Not know beans about - Unfamiliar or ignorant

  • Not worth a hill of beans - Not valuable

  • Nutty as a fruitcake - Crazy

  • Packed in like sardines - Crowded

  • Piece of cake - Easy

  • Pie in the sky - A dream

  • Rotten to the core - Very bad

  • Salt of the Earth - Ordinary people

  • Sell like hotcakes - Sell a lot

  • Slice of the pie - A share of something

  • Small potatoes - Unimportant

  • Spill the beans - Tell a secret

  • Stick to your ribs - Last a long time

  • Sugarcoat - Gloss over bad information

  • Take with a grain of salt - Don’t take something seriously

  • That's the way the cookie crumbles - Things happen

  • There is no such thing as a free lunch - Can’t get something for nothing

  • Top banana - Leader

  • Variety is the spice of life - Differences give life interest

  • Walk on eggshells - Be cautious

  • Whole enchilada - Entire thing

  • Worth your salt - Worthwhile

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