Food Sayings
Food Idioms
50 popular food idioms and sayings:
An apple a day keeps the doctor away: eating an apple a day will keep you healthy
Bring home the bacon: to earn an income, bring home money
Gravy train: to have it easy
Hard nut to crack: difficult personality
A piece of cake : when something is easy to do.
Butter me up: to flatter someone in the hopes they will do you a favor
Bread and butter: go to together well
The big cheese: very important person
Selling like hotcakes: very popular, selling a lot of something
Cherry pick: to hand pick something in your favor
What’s cookin… good lookin…?: how are things/ what’s happening
Cool as a cucumber: very calm and collected
Something’s fishy: something seems odd or unusual
A Fish out of water: a person who is out of place seems uncomfortable or doesn’t know how to act
Couch potato: being lazy
Nuttier than a fruitcake: crazy or mad
Don’t cry over spilled milk: no reason to get upset over something simple
Bigger fish to fry: there are more important things to worry about
Icing on the cake: the one thing that pushes you over the edge.
Making lemonade out of lemons: turn a negative into a positive
As flat as a pancake: something is very flat
As slow as molasses: someone is very very slow at doing a task
She’s/he’s a bad apple: rotten, not a good person
Big enchilada: important person, the boss
Cooked my goose: got yourself in trouble
Cream puff: soft, or sensitive
Cream of the crop: the best of the best
Not my cup of tea: something you’re not interested in or good at.
Got egg on your face: got caught doing wrong
Feast or famine: you either have it all or you have nothing
Food for thought: something to think about
Forbidden fruit: something that is forbidden or taboo
Go bananas: go crazy
Full of beans: telling a story
In a pickle: in a difficult situation
Bun in the oven: pregnant
Cheesy: silly
Have your cake and eat it too: getting everything you want
Don’t put all your eggs into one basket: don’t count on just one thing, diversify your efforts.
Use your noodle: use your brain
Spill the beans: tell what you know
Not for all the tea in China: won’t do it for anything
Chew the fat: make casual conversation
Don’t cut the mustard: don’t do something that produces no effect.
Eat humble pie: apologize when you are wrong
He/she fell off the turnip truck: not smart
Take it with a grain of salt: don’t take what they say seriously, probably not true.
Like nailing jello to a wall: an impossible task
Packed like sardines: crowded
Piece of Cake: Easy
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