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idcategoryidiomdescription
1201 Food Go bananas If you go bananas, you are wild with excitement, anxiety, or worry.
1202 Food Go fry an egg (USA) This is used to tell someone to go away and leave you alone.
1203 Food Go nuts If someone goes nuts, they get excited over something.
1204 Food Go pear-shaped If things have gone wrong, they have gone pear-shaped.
1205 Food Go pound salt (USA) This means Get lost or Go away(Go pound sand is also used.)
1206 Food Gone pear-shaped (UK) If things have gone pear-shaped they have either gone wrong or produced an unexpected and unwanted result.
1207 Food Good egg A person who can be relied on is a good egg. Bad egg is the opposite.
1208 Food Grain of salt If you should take something with a grain of salt, you shouldnt necessarily believe it all. (pinch of salt is an alternative)
1209 Food Gravy train If someone is on the gravy train, they have found and easy way to make lots of money.
1210 Food Half a loaf is better than no bread It means that getting part of what you want is better than getting nothing at all.
1211 Food Hard cheese (UK) Hard cheese means hard luck.
1212 Food Have your cake and eat it too If someone wants to have their cake and eat it too, they want everything their way, especially when their wishes are contradictory.
1213 Food Have your lunch handed to you If you have you lunch handed to you, you are outperformed and shown up by someone better.
1214 Food Hot potato A problem or issue that is very controversial and no one wants to deal with is a hot potato.
1215 Food How do you like them apples (USA) This idiomatic expression is used to express surprise or shock at something that has happened. It can also be used to boast about something you have done.
1216 Food I should cocoa (UK) This idiom comes from I should think so, but is normally used sarcastically to mean the opposite.
1217 Food Icing on the cake This expression is used to refer to something good that happens on top of an already good thing or situation.
1218 Food If you are given lemons make lemonade Always try and make the best out of a bad situation. With some ingenuity you can make a bad situation useful.
1219 Food In a nutshell This idiom is used to introduce a concise summary.
1220 Food In a pickle If you are in a pickle, you are in some trouble or a mess.
1221 Food In the gravy If youre in the gravy, youre rich and make money easily.
1222 Food In the soup If youre in the soup, youre in trouble.
1223 Food It's no use crying over spilt milk This idiom means that getting upset after something has gone wrong is pointless; it cant be changed so it should be accepted.
1224 Food Jam on your face If you say that someone has jam on their face, they appear to be caught, embarrassed or found guilty.
1225 Food Jam tomorrow (UK) This idiom is used when people promise good things for the future that will never come.
1226 Food Keen as mustard (UK) If someone is very enthusiastic, they are as keen as mustard.
1227 Food Know which side one's bread is buttered on If you know which side ones bread is buttered on, you know where your interests lie and will act accordingly to protect or further them.
1228 Food Know your onions If someone is very well-informed about something, they know their onions.
1229 Food Laugh to see a pudding crawl (UK) Someone who would laugh to see a pudding crawl is easily amused and will laugh at anything.
1230 Food Life is just a bowl of cherries This idiom means that life is simple and pleasant.
1231 Food Like giving a donkey strawberries (UK) If something is like giving a donkey strawberries, people fail to appreciate its value.
1232 Food Like green corn through the new maid (USA) If something is very fast, it is like green corn through the new maid.
1233 Food 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.
1234 Food Like peas in a pod If people or things are like peas in a pod, they look identical.
1235 Food Like taking candy from a baby (USA) If something is like taking candy from a baby, it is very easy to do.
1236 Food Like two peas in a pod Things that are like two peas in a pod are very similar or identical,
1237 Food Like watching sausage getting made If something is like watching sausages getting made, unpleasant truths about it emerge that make it much less appealing.  The idea is that if people watched sausages getting made, they would probably be less fond of them.
1238 Food Lose your lunch (UK) If you lose your lunch, you vomit.
1239 Food Low-hanging fruit Low-hanging fruit are things that are easily achieved.
1240 Food Make a meal If someone makes a meal of something, they spend too long doing it or make it look more difficult than it really is.
1241 Food Meat and drink If something is meat and drink to you, you enjoy it and are naturally good at it, though many find it difficult.
1242 Food 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.
1243 Food Milk run A milk run is a short trip, stopping in a number of places.
1244 Food Mutton dressed as lamb Mutton dressed as lamb is term for middle-aged or elderly people trying to look younger.
1245 Food Nest egg If you have some money saved for the future, it is a nest egg.
1246 Food 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!"
1247 Food Not give a fig If you dont give a fig about something, you dont care about it at all, especially used to express how little one cares about anothers opinions or actions.
1248 Food Not know beans about (USA) If someone doesnt know beans about something, they know nothing about it.
1249 Food Not my cup of tea If something is not your cup of tea, you dont like it very much.
1250 Food Nutty as a fruitcake Someone whos nutty as a fruitcake is irrational or crazy. (This can be shortened to a fruitcake.)
1251 Food 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.
1252 Food 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.
1253 Food Out to lunch If someones out to lunch, they are crazy or out of touch.
1254 Food Over-egg the pudding (UK) If you over-egg the pudding, you spoil something by trying to improve it excessively. It is also used nowadays with the meaning of making something look bigger or more important than it really is. (Over-egg alone is often used in this sense.)
1255 Food Packed like sardines If a place is extremely crowded, people are packed like sardines, or packed in like sardines.
1256 Food Pay peanuts If some is paid peanuts, their salary is very low.
1257 Food Pea soup Pea soup or pea souper can be used to describe dense fog.
1258 Food Peanut gallery An audience that interrupts, boos or heckles a performer, speaker, etc, is a peanut gallery.
1259 Food Pie in the sky If an idea or scheme is pie in the sky, it is utterly impractical.
1260 Food Piece of cake If something is a piece of cake, it is really easy.
1261 Food Pieces of the same cake Pieces of the same cake are things that have the same characteristics or qualities.
1262 Food 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 shouldnt be believed unquestioningly. (with a grain of salt is an alternative.)
1263 Food Polish the apples (USA) Someone who polishes the apples with someone, tries to get into that persons favor.
1264 Food Polishing peanuts To work very hard at something for little or no return. In other words, wasting time on work which will not yield reasonable value.
1265 Food Proof of the pudding is in the eating This means that something can only be judged when it is tested or by its results. (It is often shortened to Proof of the pudding.)
1266 Food Pull the fat from the fire If you pull the fat from the fire, you help someone in a difficult situation.
1267 Food Put all your eggs in one basket If you put all your eggs in one basket, you risk everything on a single opportunity which, like eggs breaking, could go wrong.
1268 Food Put some mustard on it! (USA) Its used to encourage someone to throw a ball like a baseball hard or fast.
1269 Food Quarrel with bread and butter Bread and butter, here, indicate the means of one’s living. (That is why we say ‘he is the bread winner of the family’). 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.
1270 Food Real plum A real plum is a good opportunity.
1271 Food Recipe for disaster A recipe for disaster is a mixture of people and events that could only possibly result in trouble.
1272 Food Rest is gravy (USA) If the rest is gravy, it is easy and straightforward once you have reached that stage.
1273 Food Rice missionary A rice missionary gives food to hungry people as a way of converting them to Christianity.
1274 Food Salad days Your salad days are an especially happy period of your life.
1275 Food Salt in a wound If you rub salt in a wound, you make someone feel bad about something that is already a painful experience. Pour salt on a wound is an alternative form of the idiom.
1276 Food Salt of the earth People who are salt of the earth are decent, dependable and unpretentious.
1277 Food Save someone's bacon If something saves your bacon, it saves your life or rescues you from a desperate situation. People can also save your bacon.
1278 Food Sell like hot cakes If a product is selling very well, it is selling like hot cakes.
1279 Food Sell like hotcakes If something is selling like hotcakes, it is very popular and selling very well.
1280 Food Sell your birthright for a mess of pottage If a person sells their birthright for a mess of pottage, they accept some trivial financial or other gain, but lose something much more important. Sell your soul for a mess of pottage is an alternative form.
1281 Food Separate the wheat from the chaff When you separate the wheat from the chaff, you select what is useful or valuable and reject what is useless or worthless.
1282 Food Settled on your lees This is an old biblical idiom but still used. It refers to the lees (dregs, sediments) of wine or other liquids that settle in the bottom of the containing vessel if it is not disturbed. Hence, the idiom refers to someone or something that is at ease, not disturbed, or worried. Sometimes this also has reference to a false assurance.
1283 Food Sharp cookie Someone who isnt easily deceived or fooled is a sharp cookie.
1284 Food She'll be apples (AU) A very popular old Australian saying meaning everything will be all right, often used when there is some doubt.
1285 Food Sing for your supper If you have to sing for your supper, you have to work to get the pay or reward you need or want.
1286 Food Slower than molasses going uphill in January (USA) To move extremely slowly. Molasses drips slowly anyway but add January cold and gravity, dripping uphill would be an impossibility, thereby making the molasses move very slowly indeed!
1287 Food Small potatoes Someone or something that is unimportant is small potatoes.
1288 Food Sour grapes When someone says something critical or negative because they are jealous, it is a case of sour grapes.
1289 Food Sow your wild oats If a young man sows his wild oats, he has a period of his life when he does a lot of exciting things and has a lot of sexual relationships. for e.g. Hed spent his twenties sowing his wild oats but felt that it was time to settle down.
1290 Food Spice of life The spice of life is something that makes it feel worth living.
1291 Food Spill the beans If you spill the beans, you reveal a secret or confess to something.
1292 Food Square meal A square meal is a substantial or filling meal.
1293 Food Squeeze blood out of a turnip (USA) When people say that you cant squeeze blood out of a turnip, it means that you cannot get something from a person, especially money, that they dont have.
1294 Food Stew in your own juices If you leave someone to stew in their own juices, you leave them to worry about the consequences of what they have done wrong or badly.
1295 Food Sure as eggs is eggs These means absolutely certain, and we do say is even though it is grammatically wrong.
1296 Food Sweet as a gumdrop This means that something or someone is very nice or pretty.
1297 Food Take the biscuit (UK) If something takes the biscuit, it is the absolute limit.
1298 Food Take the cake If something takes the cake, it is the best and takes the honours.
1299 Food Tall drink of water Someone who is very tall and slender is a tall drink of water. (A tall glass of water is also used.)
1300 Food Teach your grandmother to suck eggs When people say dont teach your grandmother to suck eggs, they mean that people shouldnt try to teach someone who has experience or is an expert in that area.

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