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Expressions with food

by hammerbcn
Full of beans, butter sb up, etc.
(84 terms)
  • full of beans
  • acquired taste
  • have your cake and eat it too
  • icing on the cake
  • dangle a carrot
  • egg sb on
  • food for thought
  • egg on one's face
  • extend an olive branch
  • don't cry over spilled milk
  • in hot water
  • know which side one's bread is buttered on
  • spill the beans
  • bring home the bacon
  • breadwinner
  • have a bun in the oven
  • butterfingers
  • the proof is in the pudding
  • its a piece of cake
  • test the waters
  • cook the books
  • chalk and cheese
  • get another bite at the cherry
  • have bigger fish to fry
  • know your onions
  • a different kettle of fish
  • sell like hot cakes
  • take the biscuit
  • play gooseberry
  • souped-up
  • sour grapes
  • like a fish out of water
  • put all your eggs in one basket
  • go bananas
  • couch potato
  • that's the way the cookie crumbles
  • that old chestnut!
  • go nuts
  • the big cheese
  • make mincemeat of
  • cherry picker
  • be in a pickle
  • eat someone out of house and home
  • carrot top
  • go pear-shaped
  • pie in the sky
  • eat humble pie
  • not my cup of tea
  • is a real bad egg
  • is the apple of my eye
  • pretty please with a cherry on top
  • butter sb up
  • cream of the crop
  • cut the cheese
  • gravy train
  • cool as a cucumber
  • is a real bad apple
  • handed to you on a silver platter
  • in a nutshell
  • spice things up
  • take sth with a grain of salt
  • peach fuzz
  • use your noodle
  • the kettle calling the pot black
  • bit off more than you can chew
  • as flat as a pancake
  • is a real fruitcake
  • as slow as molasses
  • forbidden fruit
  • am nuts about
  • buy a lemon
  • born with a silver spoon in your mouth
  • eat your heart out
  • chew the fat with sb
  • cheesy
  • bite the hand that feeds you
  • the fruits of your labor
  • either feast or famine
  • half baked
  • like two peas in a pod
  • eat sb for breakfast
  • there's no such thing as a free lunch
  • is a tub of lard
  • walk on eggshells

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