Food Idioms (Page 3)

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Laugh to see a pudding crawl
Life is just a bowl of cherries
This idiom means that life is simple and pleasant.
Like a hot knife through butter
If something happens very easily, without any real opposition, it goes like a knife through hot butter.("Like a knife through butter" is also used.)
Like giving a donkey strawberries
(UK) If something is like giving a donkey strawberries, people fail to appreciate its value.
Like green corn through the new maid
(USA) If something is very fast, it is like green corn through the new maid.
Like nailing jello to the wall
(USA) Describes a task that is very difficult because the parameters keep changing or because someone is being evasive.
Like peas in a pod
Like taking candy from a baby
(USA) If something is like taking candy from a baby, it is very easy to do.
Like two peas in a pod
Things that are like two peas in a pod are very similar or identical,
Like watching sausage getting made
If something is like watching sausages getting made, unpleasant truths about it emerge that make it much less appealing.&nbsp; The idea is that if people watched sausages getting made, they would probably be less fond of them.
Lose your lunch
(UK) If you lose your lunch, you vomit.
Low-hanging fruit
Low-hanging fruit are things that are easily achieved.
Make a meal
Meat and drink
Meat and potatoes
The meat and potatoes is the most important part of something. A meat and potatoes person is someone who prefers plain things to fancy ones.
Milk run
A milk run is a short trip, stopping in a number of places.
Mutton dressed as lamb
Nest egg
If you have some money saved for the future, it is a nest egg.
Nice as pie
If a person is nice as pie, they are surprisingly very kind and friendly. "After our argument, she was nice as pie!"
Not give a fig
Not know beans about
(USA) If someone doesn't know beans about something, they know nothing about it.
Not my cup of tea
Nutty as a fruitcake
Someone who's nutty as a fruitcake is irrational or crazy. (This can be shortened to 'a fruitcake'.)
One bad apple
The full form of this proverb is 'one bad apple spoils the barrel', meaning that a bad person, policy, etc, can ruin everything around it.
One man's meat is another man's poison
This idiom means that one person can like something very much, but another can hate it.
Out to lunch
If someone's out to lunch, they are crazy or out of touch.
Over-egg the pudding
Packed like sardines
Pay peanuts
If some is paid peanuts, their salary is very low.
Pea soup
Pea soup or pea souper can be used to describe dense fog.
Peanut gallery
An audience that interrupts, boos or heckles a performer, speaker, etc, is a peanut gallery.
Pie in the sky
Piece of cake
Pieces of the same cake
Pinch of salt
If what someone says should be taken with a pinch of salt, then they exaggerate and distort things, so what they say shouldn't be believed unquestioningly. ('with a grain of salt' is an alternative.)
Play gooseberry
(UK) A person who tags&nbsp;along with two people who are in a romantic relationship when they&nbsp;would rather be alone is playing gooseberry. The American English equivalent is "third wheel".
Polish the apples
(USA) Someone who polishes the apples with someone, tries to get into that person's favor.
Polishing peanuts
Proof of the pudding is in the eating
Pull the fat from the fire
Put all your eggs in one basket
Put some mustard on it!
(USA) It's used to encourage someone to throw a ball like a baseball hard or fast.
Quarrel with bread and butter
Bread and butter, here, indicate the means of one&rsquo;s living. (That is why we say &lsquo;he is the bread winner of the family&rsquo;). If a sub-ordinate in an organisation is quarrelsome or if he is not patient enough to bear the reprimand he deserves, gets angry and retorts or provokes the higher-up, the top man dismisses him from the job. So, he loses the job that gave him bread and butter. Hence we say, he quarrelled with bread and butter (manager or the top man) and lost his job.
Real plum
A real plum is a good opportunity.
Recipe for disaster
Rest is gravy
(USA) If the rest is gravy, it is easy and straightforward once you have reached that stage.
Rice missionary
A rice missionary gives food to hungry people as a way of converting them to Christianity.
Salad days
Your salad days are an especially happy period of your life.
Salt in a wound
Salt of the earth

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