Food Idioms

As cool as a cucumber

• A craving or fondness for sweet food

• Very calm or very calmly, especially when this is surprising.

• To be in a difficult situation.

• Someone or something that is not important or impressive.

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As warm as a toast

• Comfortably or pleasantly warm

• Something which makes a good situation even better

• Try to win favor through flattery

• Said to mean that life is full of pleasure and enjoyment. This expression is often used negatively to comment on an unpleasant or difficult situation.

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Big cheese/ the apple/ enchilada

• To be pregnant

• To be very embarrassed

• Someone who has a very important job or position

• To be in a difficult situation

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Bread and butter

• Someone's favorite person or thing, a person or thing that he is proud of.

• Said to mean that life is full of pleasure and enjoyment. This expression is often used negatively to comment on an unpleasant or difficult situation.

• To have more important or more interesting things to do or attend to

• A job or activity that provides you with the money you need to live

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Bring home beacon

• To be very cautious or diplomatic for fear of upsetting someone

• Emphasizing that they are sitting or standing so close together that they cannot move easily

• To summarize or describe something in only a few words

• Earn a living, provide the necessities of life.

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Buy a lemon

• To not know anything about something.

• Something which makes a good situation even better

• To buy something that is worthless or of much less value than one was led to believe.

• Said to mean that life is full of pleasure and enjoyment. This expression is often used negatively to comment on an unpleasant or difficult situation

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Cream of the crop

• Someone who is clever and good at dealing with difficult situations

• The best of a group of similar things or people

• To be in a difficult situation.

• Something easy accomplished

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Eat your words/ own

• Very calm or very calmly, especially when this is surprising

• Something that someone likes or is good at- usually used in negative statements

• A craving or fondness for sweet food

• To admit that something you said before was wrong

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Food for thought

• To buy something that is worthless or of much less value than one was led to believe.

• Something to consider

• To not know anything about something

• Someone's favorite person or thing, a person or thing that he is proud of.

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Go bananas (or nuts)

• Someone or something that is not important or impressive

• Someone who has a very important job or position

• To summarize or describe something in only a few words.

• To become very excited or angry.

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