How cool would it be If you ordered your meal in idioms. English idioms used with food are in the hundreds, so I could only show a small percentage of them here.
acquire a taste for (something)
- to develop a liking for some kind of food or drink or something else
apple of (someone`s) eye
- someone or something that one likes a lot or likes more than others
as black as a skillet
- very black
as busy as popcorn on a skillet
- very active
as cool as a cucumber
- to be calm, to be not nervous or anxious
as easy as apple pie
- very easy
as easy as duck soup
- very easy
as flat as a pancake
- very flat
as hungry as a bear
- very hungry
as nutty as a fruitcake
- silly, crazy
as red as a cherry
- bright red
as slow as molasses in January
- very slow
as sour as vinegar
- sour and disagreeable
as sweet as honey/sugar
- very sweet
as thick as pea soup
- very thick (can be used with fog as well as with liquids)
as warm as toast
- very warm and cozy
at one sitting
- at one time, during one period
back to the salt mines
- to go back to work (this is a humorous expression to express going back to unpleasant work)
bad apple
- a bad person
bad egg
- a bad person
when you take a high level English exam like the CAE or CPE idioms are an important factor and you need to know idioms if you want to do well in the exam.
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