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Food-Related Idioms and Sayings

Common English idioms that reference food, such as spilling the beans, matched with their meaning, one idiom per card.

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35 basic cards for General Idioms and Sayings. It opens with "Bread and butter" and "Couch potato". More Hobbies and Everyday Life decks are listed below.

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Bread and butter
Show answerMain source of income or livelihood
Couch potato
Show answerLazy person who watches TV all day
Apple of my eye
Show answerSomeone dearly loved or cherished
Big cheese
Show answerImportant or powerful person
Butter someone up
Show answerFlatter or praise someone excessively
Crying over spilled milk
Show answerWasting time regretting something you cannot change
Cup of tea
Show answerSomething you like or enjoy
Egg someone on
Show answerEncourage or urge someone to do something
Egg on your face
Show answerEmbarrassed or humiliated
Fish out of water
Show answerPerson uncomfortable or out of place in an unfamiliar situation
Forbidden fruit
Show answerSomething desirable but not allowed or prohibited
Food for thought
Show answerSomething interesting or worth thinking about
Gravy train
Show answerEasy source of income or profit
Grist for the mill
Show answerUseful material or experience to work with
Half-baked
Show answerNot fully thought through or incompletely developed

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