FOOD IDIOMS and Phrases with Meanings
In a pickle
Meaning: Someone in a difficult situation
Best thing since sliced bread
Meaning: The best thing since a particular time
A piece of cake
Meaning: something that is easy to do.
That’s the icing on the cake
Meaning: that makes it even better or this means the conclusion or last step in something, giving it the touch up.
Fit for a king!
Meaning: is used to say that the subject is something special.
Easy as pie
Meaning: Something that is easy to do.
You can’t have your cake and eat it too
Meaning: You can’t have both things that you want, you must choose one or the other.
I’m stuffed!
Meaning: I’ve eaten too much!
You are what you eat.
Meaning: The kind of food you eat affects your health and appearance.
Finger-licking good
Meaning: Something tastes so good that you want to lick your fingers.
As cool as a cucumber
Meaning: Someone who is very cool headed and doesn’t get worried.
• Egg on
Meaning: To encourage someone.
To sell like hot cakes
Meaning: To refer to an object or commodity is bought by many people.
To spill the beans
Meaning: To reveal a secret to someone who is not supposed to know.
Not my cup of tea
Meaning: To indicate something you either don’t like much or can’t do.
Apple of my eye
Meaning: an adored person
Bad egg
Meaning: a troublesome person
Basket case
Meaning: erratic or panicky
Be nuts
Meaning: about really enjoy
Beet red
Meaning: embarrassed or angry
Big cheese
Meaning: an important person
Bitter pill
Meaning: something unpleasant that must be accepted
Born with a silver spoon
Meaning: a rich family
Bread and butter
Meaning: necessities or main points
Bring home the bacon
Meaning: earn money
Butter someone up
Meaning: be really nice to someone
Cheap as chips
Meaning: very inexpensive
Cook the books
Meaning: dishonest accounting
Couch potato
Meaning: lazy person
Cream of the crop
Meaning: the best
Cry over spilled milk
Meaning: get upset over something insignificant
Cup of joe
Meaning: cup of coffee
Cut the cheese
Meaning: To fart
Cut the mustard
Meaning: meet expectations
Egg someone on
Meaning: to urge or provoke someone
Freeze your buns off
Meaning: be very cold
Full of beans
Meaning: energetic
Gravy train
Meaning: pay for minimal work
Hard nut to crack
Meaning: difficult to understand or persuade
Have a bun in the oven
Meaning: be pregnant