Food Idioms by https://padlet.com/ankishan1/7eeqtxj4p2dv en-us 2018-01-24 20:48:40 UTC 2025-12-08 16:57:00 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Pizza.png Part 1 ankishan1 https://padlet.com/ankishan1/7eeqtxj4p2dv/wish/224444288 Take The Cake
A Bad Egg
A Big Cheese
Bread And Butter
Cool As A Cucumber
Cup Of Tea
A Hard Nut To Crack
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To take the cake means to be number #1! This idiom can mean both very good and very bad!
The final runner takes the cake for being the slowest.

A Bad Egg
To be a bad egg means to be a bad person.
That boy has been in and out of jail all his life. He's a real bad egg.

A Big Cheese
A big cheese is a leader or important person
This client is a big cheese at his company, so be extra nice to him!

Bread And Butter
Your bread and butter are your staples or basic necessities.
Our company makes a few shirts for dogs, but our bread and butter is dog food.



]]> 2018-01-24 20:56:10 UTC https://padlet.com/ankishan1/7eeqtxj4p2dv/wish/224445604 ankishan1 https://padlet.com/ankishan1/7eeqtxj4p2dv/wish/224448383 Cool As A Cucumber
To be cool as a cucumber means to be calm and relaxed.
Even at her important job interview, Jamie was as cool as a cucumber.

Cup Of Tea
When something is your cup of tea, it means you enjoy it or are good at it.
Watching ice hockey is OK, but it's not really my cup of tea.

A Hard Nut To Crack
To be a hard nut to crack means to be difficult to understand or figure out.
The new guy at work is very quiet and looks like a hard nut to crack.

Out To Lunch
To be out to lunch is to be crazy or mad.
My boss doesn't understand how to run a company! He's totally out to lunch!
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A Couch Potato
A Piece Of Cake
To Spill The Beans
Take Something With A Grain Of Salt
To Have A Bun In The Oven
To Butter Someone Up
One Smart Cookie

]]> 2018-01-24 21:09:15 UTC https://padlet.com/ankishan1/7eeqtxj4p2dv/wish/224449196 ankishan1 https://padlet.com/ankishan1/7eeqtxj4p2dv/wish/224450017 The Apple Of My Eye
To be the apple of someone's eye means to be liked very much!
My granddaughter is the apple of my eye.

A Couch Potato
A couch potato is a very lazy person.
My brother is such a couch potato. He just sits around watching TV all day.

A Piece Of Cake
A piece of cake is something that is done very easily.
This job is a piece of cake. All I have to do is push this button!

To Spill The Beans
To spill the beans means to reveal a secret.
Don't spill the beans to John about his surprise birthday party tomorrow!


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To take something with a grain of salt means to believe only part of something.
Max always exaggerates, so I always take everything he says with a grain of salt.

To Have A Bun In The Oven
To have a bun in the oven means to be pregnant. The bun is the baby and the oven is the mother's belly.
Jane won't be drinking beer anytime soon now that she has a bun in the oven.

To Butter Someone Up
To butter someone up means to be extra nice to them for personal benefit.
I got a dent in my dad's car, so I'll butter him up before I tell him about it.

One Smart Cookie
To be one smart cookie is to be very intelligent.
My daughter won first prize at the science fair. She is one smart cookie!


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