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idcategoryidiomdescription
3501 Food Cut the mustard If somebody or something doesnt cut the mustard, they fail or it fails to reach the required standard.
3502 Food Different kettle of fish If something is a different kettle of fish, it is very different from the other things referenced.
3503 Food Dine on ashes I someone is dining on ashes he or she is excessively focusing attention on failures or regrets for past actions.?
3504 Food Don't cry over spilt milk When something bad happens and nothing can be done to help it people say, Dont cry over spilt milk.
3505 Food Dropped like a hot cake If something is dropped like a hot cake, it is rejected or disposed of very quickly.
3506 Food Duck soup (USA) If something is duck soup, it is very easy.
3507 Food Easy as beans Something that is so easy that anyone can do it is easy as beans.
3508 Food Easy as pie If something is easy as pie, it is very easy indeed.
3509 Food Easy peasy (UK) If something is easy peasy, it is very easy indeed. (Easy peasy, lemon squeezy is also used.)
3510 Food Eat humble pie If someone apologises and shows a lot of contrition for something they have done, they eat humble pie.
3511 Food Eat someone alive If you eat someone alive, you defeat or beat them comprehensively.
3512 Food Egg on your face If someone has egg on their face, they are made to look foolish or embarrassed.
3513 Food Eye candy When a person is very attractive, they can be described as eye candy - sweet to look at!
3514 Food Fall off the turnip truck (USA) If someone has just fallen off the turnip truck, they are uninformed, naive and gullible. (Often used in the negative)
3515 Food Fine words butter no parsnips This idiom means that its easy to talk, but talk is not action.
3516 Food Finger in the pie If you have a finger in the pie, you have an interest in something.
3517 Food Fish in troubled waters Someone who fishes in troubled waters tries to takes advantage of a shaky or unstable situation. The extremists were fishing in troubled waters during the political uncertainty in the country.
3518 Food Flat as a pancake It is so flat that it is like a pancake- there is no head on that beer it is as flat as a pancake.
3519 Food Food for thought If something is food for thought, it is worth thinking about or considering seriously.
3520 Food Forbidden fruit Something enjoyable that is illegal or immoral is forbidden fruit.
3521 Food From soup to nuts If you do something from soup to nuts, you do it from the beginning right to the very end.
3522 Food Full of beans If someones full of beans, they are very energetic.
3523 Food Glutton for punishment If a person is described as a glutton for punishment, the happily accept jobs and tasks that most people would try to get out of. A glutton is a person who eats a lot.
3524 Food Go bananas If you go bananas, you are wild with excitement, anxiety, or worry.
3525 Food Go fry an egg (USA) This is used to tell someone to go away and leave you alone.
3526 Food Go nuts If someone goes nuts, they get excited over something.
3527 Food Go pear-shaped If things have gone wrong, they have gone pear-shaped.
3528 Food Go pound salt (USA) This means Get lost or Go away(Go pound sand is also used.)
3529 Food Gone pear-shaped (UK) If things have gone pear-shaped they have either gone wrong or produced an unexpected and unwanted result.
3530 Food Good egg A person who can be relied on is a good egg. Bad egg is the opposite.
3531 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)
3532 Food Gravy train If someone is on the gravy train, they have found and easy way to make lots of money.
3533 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.
3534 Food Hard cheese (UK) Hard cheese means hard luck.
3535 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.
3536 Food Have your lunch handed to you If you have you lunch handed to you, you are outperformed and shown up by someone better.
3537 Food Hot potato A problem or issue that is very controversial and no one wants to deal with is a hot potato.
3538 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.
3539 Food I should cocoa (UK) This idiom comes from I should think so, but is normally used sarcastically to mean the opposite.
3540 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.
3541 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.
3542 Food In a nutshell This idiom is used to introduce a concise summary.
3543 Food In a pickle If you are in a pickle, you are in some trouble or a mess.
3544 Food In the gravy If youre in the gravy, youre rich and make money easily.
3545 Food In the soup If youre in the soup, youre in trouble.
3546 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.
3547 Food Jam on your face If you say that someone has jam on their face, they appear to be caught, embarrassed or found guilty.
3548 Food Jam tomorrow (UK) This idiom is used when people promise good things for the future that will never come.
3549 Food Keen as mustard (UK) If someone is very enthusiastic, they are as keen as mustard.
3550 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.
3551 Food Know your onions If someone is very well-informed about something, they know their onions.
3552 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.
3553 Food Life is just a bowl of cherries This idiom means that life is simple and pleasant.
3554 Food Like giving a donkey strawberries (UK) If something is like giving a donkey strawberries, people fail to appreciate its value.
3555 Food Like green corn through the new maid (USA) If something is very fast, it is like green corn through the new maid.
3556 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.
3557 Food Like peas in a pod If people or things are like peas in a pod, they look identical.
3558 Food Like taking candy from a baby (USA) If something is like taking candy from a baby, it is very easy to do.
3559 Food Like two peas in a pod Things that are like two peas in a pod are very similar or identical,
3560 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.
3561 Food Lose your lunch (UK) If you lose your lunch, you vomit.
3562 Food Low-hanging fruit Low-hanging fruit are things that are easily achieved.
3563 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.
3564 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.
3565 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.
3566 Food Milk run A milk run is a short trip, stopping in a number of places.
3567 Food Mutton dressed as lamb Mutton dressed as lamb is term for middle-aged or elderly people trying to look younger.
3568 Food Nest egg If you have some money saved for the future, it is a nest egg.
3569 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!"
3570 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.
3571 Food Not know beans about (USA) If someone doesnt know beans about something, they know nothing about it.
3572 Food Not my cup of tea If something is not your cup of tea, you dont like it very much.
3573 Food Nutty as a fruitcake Someone whos nutty as a fruitcake is irrational or crazy. (This can be shortened to a fruitcake.)
3574 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.
3575 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.
3576 Food Out to lunch If someones out to lunch, they are crazy or out of touch.
3577 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.)
3578 Food Packed like sardines If a place is extremely crowded, people are packed like sardines, or packed in like sardines.
3579 Food Pay peanuts If some is paid peanuts, their salary is very low.
3580 Food Pea soup Pea soup or pea souper can be used to describe dense fog.
3581 Food Peanut gallery An audience that interrupts, boos or heckles a performer, speaker, etc, is a peanut gallery.
3582 Food Pie in the sky If an idea or scheme is pie in the sky, it is utterly impractical.
3583 Food Piece of cake If something is a piece of cake, it is really easy.
3584 Food Pieces of the same cake Pieces of the same cake are things that have the same characteristics or qualities.
3585 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.)
3586 Food Polish the apples (USA) Someone who polishes the apples with someone, tries to get into that persons favor.
3587 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.
3588 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.)
3589 Food Pull the fat from the fire If you pull the fat from the fire, you help someone in a difficult situation.
3590 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.
3591 Food Put some mustard on it! (USA) Its used to encourage someone to throw a ball like a baseball hard or fast.
3592 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.
3593 Food Real plum A real plum is a good opportunity.
3594 Food Recipe for disaster A recipe for disaster is a mixture of people and events that could only possibly result in trouble.
3595 Food Rest is gravy (USA) If the rest is gravy, it is easy and straightforward once you have reached that stage.
3596 Food Rice missionary A rice missionary gives food to hungry people as a way of converting them to Christianity.
3597 Food Salad days Your salad days are an especially happy period of your life.
3598 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.
3599 Food Salt of the earth People who are salt of the earth are decent, dependable and unpretentious.
3600 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.

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