Food idioms

In a nutshell

• closed to the world

• saved from something dangerous

• expressed in a few words

A piece of cake

• very easily done

• very quicky eaten

• very small

Food for thought

• something that helps you to think

• something that makes you think carefully

• something that is good for your brain

To have a lot in my plate

• Be busy, be in the middle of many ongoing tasks

• Have a lot of food

• Be full of emotions

Pie in the sky

• Something that is unrealistic

• Something very tasty

• someone who is absent-minded

Hot potato

• A burnt potato

• A man caught in a lie

• A controversial subject or difficult project

To walk on eggshells

• To walk through the scattered garbage

• To act very sensitively in order to avoid offending someone

• To act at the risk of losing everything

To go bananas

• to become happy

• to meet with the friends

• to become very excited or angry