Match the food idiom with its meaning:

to be bored/depressed/annoyed

to cry or complain about something that

The apple of (someone`s)
eye
As cool as cucumber
As easy as apple pie/duck
soup
as flat as a pancake
as nutty as a fruitcake
as red as a cherry
has already happened
to compare two things that are not
similar and should not be compared
someone or something that one likes a
lot
to earn your family`s living
very thick (can be used with fog as well
as with liquids)
something that one does not enjoy or do
well (usually used in the negative)

to succeed, to do adequately what needs

as sweet as honey/sugar
to be done

as warm as toast someone who spends a lot of time on a

couch watching television
as thick as pea soup
very flat
as sour as vinegar
a bad person

bad/rotten apple/ egg sour and disagreeable

big cheese to encourage someone to do something

(often something bad/wrong/dangerous)
bread and butter
one's income/job to buy the basic needs
of life like food/shelter/clothing
bring home the bacon
ANSWERS: very warm and cozy
carrot and stick
2- 3- 4- 5- 6- 7- to damage or ruin someone
cheesed of
8- 9- 10- 11- 12- 13- 14- to be calm, to be not nervous or anxious
cofee break silly, crazy
15- 16- 17- 18- 19- 20- 21-

22- 23-
compare apples and oranges
24- 25- 26-
a break from work to rest and drink
coffee/tea
cook (someone's) goose
almost everything that one can think of
couch potato to use or spend something and still keep
 cry over spilled/spilt milk
very easy
(not one's) cup of tea
bright red
cut the mustard the reward for someone if they do what
you want
eat one`s cake and have it
too an important person, a leader

egg (someone) on very sweet

everything from soup to

nuts
Match the food idiom with its meaning:

food for thought to be embarrassed (because of an

obvious error)
for peanuts
not for anything

forbidden fruit something that one finds attractive

partly because it is
full of beans illegal/immoral/prohibited

go bananas to become highly excited, to behave in a

crazy way
go/turn beet-red
to beat up or destroy someone or
something
good egg
to use or spend something and still keep
greatest thing since sliced it, to have something both ways
bread
to have other more important things to
hard nut to crack do

have bigger fish to fry
have egg on one`s face
have one's cake and eat it too
to be in one's youth
to give a bad performance of something
to become red in the face because you
are embarrassed

a question or argument that is

have one's finger in too many
controversial and difficult to settle
pies
to know what is most advantageous for
hit the sauce you

hot potato a difficult person or thing to deal with

ANSWERS: a good person

icing on the cake
2- 3- 4- 5- 6- 7- to be involved in too many things so that
in one's salad days you cannot do any of them well
8- 9- 10- 11- 12- 13- 14-
in the soup not in any recognizable category
15- 16- 17- 18- 19- 20- 21-
the greatest thing that there has ever
know which side one's bread been
22- 23- 24- 25- 26-
is buttered
to drink alcohol (usually regularly)
lay an egg
to feel energetic, to be in high spirits

like two peas in a pod
make mincemeat/hamburger
out of (someone or
something)
something that makes a good situation
or activity even better
something to think about
for very little money, for almost nothing
in serious trouble, in a bad situation

milk (someone) for only good things happen in life

(something)
to be very close or intimate with
neither fish nor fowl someone

to pressure someone into giving

not for all the tea in China
Match the food idiom with its meaning:
not know beans about (someone or
something)
not worth a hill of beans
one man's meat is another man's
poison
information or money
to suffer from something that you yourself
have caused to happen
something helps you from failing or having
trouble
something that one person likes may be
disliked by someone else
to sell quickly or easily

packed in like sardines to know nothing about someone or

something
pie in the sky
too many people trying to do something
will cause problems
piece of cake
to accept or believe something with much
polish the apple doubt, to not give much credit or
importance to something that was said
put all one's eggs in one basket
to try to make someone's unhappiness or
rub salt in (someone's) wound misfortune worse

an idea or plan that you think will never

salt (something) away
happen

save (someone's) bacon a task that is easily accomplished

sell like hotcakes worthless

you cannot do something without causing

slice of the cake/pie
some problems or having some effects

small potatoes something that is not very big or important

compared with other things or people
spill the beans
to tell a secret to someone who is not
stew in one`s own juice supposed to know about it
ANSWERS:
the person who is the boss or the top
take (something) with a grain of salt
2- 3- 4- 5- 6- 7- person in a group or organization

8- take
9- the
10- cake
11- 12- 13- 14- a share of something

15- teach
16- one's grandmother
17- 18- 19- 20-to suck
21- eggs to be a good worker, to be worth what one
is paid
22- that's
23- the
24- way
25-the26- 27-crumbles
cookie
to flatter someone

too many cooks spoil the broth/stew to try to tell someone who has more
top banana
that's life, those things happen
walk on eggs
to be the best or worst of something

what's good/sauce for the goose is to be packed in very tightly

good/sauce for the gander
to risk everything at once
wine and dine (someone) Food idiomsto beQuiz
very cautious

worth
Findone`s saltidiom that has the same meaning as the words
out the what underlined:
is good for one person should be
good for another person as well
1.
youThe teacher
can't make said that the without
an omelette boy was her favourite one.
breaking the eggs to save money or some other tem
(a) polishing the apple (b) a piece of cake (c) out to lunch (d) the apple of her eye
to treat someone to an expensive meal, to
2. The girl was very calm during the job interview. entertain someone in a lavish manner

(a) as cool as a cucumber (b) in the soup (c) full of beans (d) the cream of the crop

3. "It is not something that appeals to me but I will go to your mothers house with you if you
want."

(a) my bread and butter (b) my duck soup (c) my cup of tea (d) my gravy train

4. Our boss told everyone that they could have a holiday next week but he later had to retract
what he had said and cancel it.

(a) make his mouth water (b) eat his words (c) polish the apple (d) take it with a grain of salt

5. I explained briefly what my friend needed to know but she still was not satisified.

(a) in a nutshell (b) out of the frying pan and into the fire (c) in the soup (d) as cool as a cucumber

6. I worked all summer and was able to save a lot of money to go back to college.

(a) butter up (b) egg on (c) take with a grain of salt (d) salt away

7. She is a very good worker and is definitely being paid what she deserves.

(a) worth her salt (b) souped up (c) nutty as a fruitcake (d) a hot potato

8. Please do not tell anyone about my plans to get married next year.

(a) hit the sauce (b) get egg on your face (c) spill the beans (d) eat humble pie

9. The toys have been selling very rapidly since they were released last month.

(a) upsetting the applecart (b) selling like hotcakes (c) worth their salt (d) half-baked
ANSWER KEYS

FOOD 1

1. D 2. Q 3. V 4. J 5. R 6. W 7. Z 8. O 9. F 10. L 11. K 12. Y 13. N 14. E

15. X 16. A 17. S 18. C 19. P 20. I 21. B 22. G 23. H 24. U 25. M 26. T

FOOD 2

1. U 2. V 3. C 4. S 5. D 6. J 7. N 8. Q 9. M 10. G 11. A 12. F 13. O

14. R 15. K 16. T 17. H 18. W 19. L 20. I 21. X 22. Y 23. E 24. Z 25. P 26. B

FOOD 3

1. E 2. K 3. C 4. V 5. I 6. J 7. R 8. W 9. H 10. Z 11. B 12. D 13. P 14. M

15. N 16. A 17. G 18. U 19. S 20. T 21. F 22. O 23. X 24. Y 25.AA 26. Q 27. L

FOOD IDIOMS QUIZ

1. D 2. A 3. C 4. D 5. A 6. D 7. A 8. C 9. B 10. D