Idiom for the Day- Food

     Food idioms? They're a piece of cake!

 

Staying with the themes I've been doing with the idioms and phrasal verbs, this week's is food. Below are just a few of the more common ones. There are dozens more.

Idiom.	Meaning	Example Sentence
To be the apple of one's eye.	a person that is adored by someone	Baby Jessica is the apple of her father's eye.
To have a bun in the oven (informal slang).	be pregnant	I don't think Jan will come to the bar because she has a bun in the oven.
To be a bad egg	a person who is often in trouble	I don't want my little brother hanging around with the bad eggs on the street.
To be a/the big cheese	very important person (VIP)	I thought I was just going to interview the secretary, but they let me talk to the big cheese himself.
Bread and butter	necessities, the main thing	Just explain the bread and butter of your report. You don't have to go into details.
To bring home the bacon	earn the income	My husband has had to bring home the bacon ever since I broke my leg.
To butter someone up	be extra nice to someone (usually for selfish reasons)	We'll have to butter Angie up before we tell her the news about the broken vase.
To have one's cake and eat it too	want more than your fair share or need	Rick wants to have his cake and eat it too. He wants to be single but he doesn't want me to date anyone else.
It’d no use crying over spilled milk	get upset over something that has happened and cannot be changed	The mirror is broken and we can't fix it. There's no need to cry over spilled milk.
To be not my cup of tea	something you enjoy (usually used negatively)	Opera isn't exactly my cup of tea.
To egg someone on	urge someone to do something	The gang tried to egg us on but we didn't want to fight.
To freeze one's buns off	be very cold	I froze my buns off at the ice rink.
To be full of beans	have a lot of (silly) energy	The kids were full of beans after the circus.
To be on the gravy train	extremely good pay for minimal work	Language school owners have been on the gravy train for twenty years.
To be hot potato	a controversial or difficult subject	Choosing a location for our new store is a hot potato right now.
In a nutshell	simply	In a nutshell, I'm having a bad day.
To be out to lunch	crazy or mad	Harry has been out to lunch ever since he lost his job.
To be piece of cake	very easy	The exam was a piece of cake.
To put all of ones eggs in one basket	rely on one single thing	Even though I'm majoring in Art, I'm taking a maths course because my Dad says I shouldn't put all of my eggs in one basket.
To be souped up	made more powerful or stylish	The car was souped up with shiny rims and a loud stereo.
To sell like hot cakes	bought by many people	The new Harry Potter books sold like hot cakes.
To spice things up	make something more exciting	I wanted to spice things up in the office, so I bought some red and gold paint.
To spill the beans	reveal the truth	On Monday, I'm going to spill the beans about my travel plans.
To take something with a pinch of salt	don't consider something 100% accurate	Take Mandy's advice with a pinch of salt. She doesn't always do her research.