Food idioms

As cool as a cucumber

• very calm or very calmly
• to be in a difficult situation
• something that is notimportant
• a craving for sweet food

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As warm as a toast

• comfortably or pleasantly warm
• something which makes a good situationeven better
• try to win favor through flattery
• said to mean that life is full of pleasure

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Big cheese

• someone who has a very important job or position
• to be pregnant
• to be in a difficult situation
• to be very embarrassed

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Bread and butter

• a job that provides you with the money for living
• to have more important or things to do
• said to mean that life is full of pleasure
• someone's favorite person or thing

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Bring home beacon

• earn a living
• to be very cautious
• describe something in only a few words
• they are sitting so close together they cannot move

Buy a lemon

• to buy something that is worthless
• to not know anything about something.
• something which makes a good situation better
• said to mean that life is full of pleasure

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Cream of the crop

• someone who is clever
• to be in a difficult situation.
• the best of a group of similar things or people
• something easy accomplished

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Eat your words

• to admit that something you said before was wrong
• very calm or very calmly
• a craving or fondness for sweet food
• something that someone likes or is good at

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Food for thought

• something to consider
• someone's favorite person or thing
• to not know anything about something
• to buy something that is worthless

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Go bananas

• to become very excited or angry
• someone or something that is not important
• describe something in only a few words.
• someone who has a very important job or position

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