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BY APHITCHAYA RUKYONG

CONTENTS SAVORY 1 DESSERTS 4 FRUITS & VEGETABLES 10 BEVERAGES 13 FLAVORINGS 15 IDIOM RESTAURANT

Bad egg MEANING : A disappointing or unpleasant person, a rogue \"Stay away from Gordon. He’s a thoroughly bad egg and the biggest bully SAVORY in the school.\" ( https://www.theidioms.com ) Idiom Restaurant Bring home the bacon MEANING : Make a living, to earn money, to achieve financial support for those at home. \"He worked hard all week to bring home the bacon for his family.\" ( https://www.merriam-webster.com ) Everything from bad egg soup to nuts bring home the bacon everything from soup to nuts MEANING : goose is cooked Everything one can reasonably imagine; many have bigger fish to fry have egg on one's face different things, often to the point of excess or meat and potatoes redundancy. pack in like sardines \"We were only going to be camping for two walk on eggshells nights, but she still insisted on bringing everything from soup to nuts along with us.\" ( https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com )

Goose is cooked MEANING : All hope is gone; there is no possibility of success; the period of good fortune is over. SAVORY \"If he doesn't win the next round, then his Idiom Restaurant goose is cooked.\" ( https://en.m.wiktionary.org ) Have bigger fish to fry MEANING : Have more important things to do. \"I won't worry about what other people are saying about me. I have bigger fish to fry.\" ( https://www.myenglishpages.com ) Have /with egg on bad egg one's face bring home the bacon everything from soup to nuts MEANING : goose is cooked You look stupid because of something that have bigger fish to fry have egg on one's face you have done. meat and potatoes \"This latest scandal has left the pack in like sardines government with egg on its face.\" walk on eggshells \"He told everyone the deal was happening, and if it falls through now he’ll have egg on his face.\" ( https://dictionary.cambridge.org )

SAVORY Meat and potatoes Idiom Restaurant MEANING : Something that is basic and simple. \"To learn how to trade in the stock market, you have to practice the meat and potatoes of the business.\" ( https://www.myenglishpages.com ) Pack in like sardines MEANING : Very tightly or snugly packed together, especially in a small space \"Having a concert in our friends café was such a good idea! Sure, we were packed in like sardines, but everyone had a great time.\" ( https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com ) bad egg Walk on eggshells bring home the bacon everything from soup to nuts MEANING : To act with great care and consideration goose is cooked so as not to upset someone. have bigger fish to fry have egg on one's face \"The littlest thing tends to anger my mother, so I feel like I have to walk on meat and potatoes eggshells whenever I'm at her house.\" pack in like sardines ( https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com ) walk on eggshells

A piece of cake DESSERT Idiom Restaurant MEANING : Very easy task \"They said the test would be difficult, but it was a piece of cake – I’ll pass with no problem at all.\" ( https://www.theidioms.com ) (As) busy as popcorn on a skillet MEANING : Constantly busy, active, or occupied (with something) \"I'm currently choreographing three plays, so I'm busy as popcorn on a skillet.\" \"Can we meet next week instead? I'm just as busy as popcorn on a skillet right now.\" ( https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com ) (As) easy as pie MEANING : a piece of cake It is simple to do. It’s a job or task that is (as) busy as popcorn on a skillet easy, requiring little effort. (as) easy as pie \"When I’m making breakfast in the (as) flat as a pancake morning, I usually go with a bowl of cereal (as) nutty as a fruitcake because it’s easy as pie to make.\" \"The results are sure to be good this time (as] sweet as honey since the exam was as easy as a pie.\" (as) warm as toast bread and butter ( https://www.theidioms.com ) butter up

(As) flat as a pancake DESSERT Idiom Restaurant MEANING : Physically squashed or flattened \"Pretty sure that bug is dead now—I stepped on it, and it looks flat as a pancake.\" \"My model of a volcano is as flat as a pancake now that you've sat on it!\" ( https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com ) (As) nutty as a fruitcake MEANING : Crazy or wacky. Usually used humorously. \"The kids are always nutty as fruitcakes when they've had something sugary to eat.\" \"I know some of my students think I'm as nutty as a fruitcake because of my weird methods.\" ( https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com ) (As) sweet as honey MEANING : a piece of cake Exceptionally sweet, friendly, or kindly (as) busy as popcorn on a skillet \"Katie is just sweet as honey and goes out (as) easy as pie of her way to befriend the new kids in (as) flat as a pancake school.\" (as) nutty as a fruitcake A: \"Is Mary Ann nice?\" B: \"Yes, indeed. She's as sweet as honey.\" (as] sweet as honey (as) warm as toast ( https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com ) bread and butter butter up

(As) warm as toast DESSERT Idiom Restaurant MEANING : Comfortably and cozily warm, especially when the weather outside is very cold. A: \"The cat must be warm as toast curled up next to that heating vent.\" B: \"She's no dummy!\" \"I've got the heater on a timer, so the house should be as warm as toast by the time we get home.\" ( https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com ) Bread and butter MEANING : The basics of something or to describe the job you rely on for income. \"He doesn’t just write for fun, writing is his bread and butter.\" ( https://7esl.com ) Butter up a piece of cake (as) busy as popcorn on a skillet MEANING : Someone try to please you because they (as) easy as pie want you to help or support them. (as) flat as a pancake (as) nutty as a fruitcake \"The bank has to butter up investors because it is in a fiercely competitive (as] sweet as honey market.\" (as) warm as toast bread and butter ( https://www.collinsdictionary.com ) butter up

Eat humble pie MEANING : To admit that one is wrong, usually when doing so triggers great embarrassment or DESSERT Idiom Restaurant shame. \"I think Ellen is a perfectionist because the thought of having to eat humble pie terrifies her.\" ( https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com ) Finger in every pie MEANING : Involved in or influencing many different activities, often with a negative connotation. \"Samsung likes to keep a finger in every pie. Weather it's TV, smartphone, tablets.\" ( http://www.idioms4you.com ) Greatest thing since eat humble pie finger in the pie sliced bread greatest thing since sliced bread half a loaf is better than none MEANING : have one's cake and eat it too Something is the best and most useful life is a box of chocolate innovation or development invented for a like taking candy from a baby long time. pie in the sky “I’ve bought a new touchscreen computer, that's the way the cookie crumbles it’s the greatest thing since sliced bread, I can’t believe I ever worked without it.” ( https://www.gingersoftware.com )

Half a loaf is better DESSERT than none Idiom Restaurant MEANING : Proverb getting less than what one wants is better than getting nothing at all. \"I know they're offering you less money than you'd hoped for, but at least it's a good job—half a loaf is better than none.\" ( https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com ) Have one's cake and eat it too MEANING : To have or do two things that one desires that are normally contradictory or impossible to have or do simultaneously. \"You're never going to save enough money to buy a house if you keep buying expensive appliances and cars. You can't have your cake and eat it, too.\" ( https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com ) Life is like a box of eat humble pie finger in the pie chocolate greatest thing since sliced bread half a loaf is better than none MEANING : have one's cake and eat it too Life is unpredictable and that it is full of life is a box of chocolate surprises; you never know what will happen like taking candy from a baby next. pie in the sky “My mom always said life was like a box of that's the way the cookie crumbles chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.” ( https://www.myenglishpages.com ) ( Forrest Gump, 1994 )

Like taking candy DESSERT Idiom Restaurant from a baby MEANING : To be an easy task. \"If you think that this game will be like taking candy from a baby, you're seriously underestimating your opponents.\" ( https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com ) Pie in the sky MEANING : An impossible, unlikely, or fanciful idea or plan. Often hyphenated. \"He keeps talking about how he'll move to Los Angeles to be a famous actor, but it's just pie in the sky if you ask me.\" ( https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com ) That's the way the eat humble pie finger in the pie cookie crumbles greatest thing since sliced bread half a loaf is better than none MEANING : have one's cake and eat it too There is nothing we can do about the way life is a box of chocolate things have unfolded, especially bad ones, like taking candy from a baby so there is no reason to be upset about it. pie in the sky \"I'm pretty gutted about not getting into that's the way the cookie crumbles the grad school program I wanted, but that's just the way the cookie crumbles.\" ( https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com )

FRUITS &VEGETABLES Idiom Restaurant A hard nut to crack Apples and oranges MEANING : MEANING : A problem or situation that's difficult Two unlike things or people to solve or deal with. \"Come on, you're a nurse and I'm \"Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro is a an engineer—our work worlds are hard nut to crack.\" apples and oranges!\" ( https://www.oysterenglish.com ) ( https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com ) Apple of one's eye (As) cool as a MEANING : cucumber The person of whom one is extremely fond, favorite, loving MEANING : \"He loved his daughter very much. Calm and composed, especially in She was the apple of his eye.\" times of stress. ( https://www.theidioms.com ) \"Call Drew—he's always cool as a cucumber about stuff like this. He'll help us for sure.\" \"I was petrified to take the stage, but Alice was as cool as a cucumber.\" ( https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com ) a hard nut to crack buy a lemon in a pickle apple of one's eye for peanuts life is just a bowl of cherries apples and oranges forbidden fruit (as) cool as a cucumber go banana like two peas in a pod top banana

FRUITS &VEGETABLES Idiom Restaurant Buy a lemon Forbidden fruit MEANING : MEANING : To buy something that is worthless An immoral or illegal pleasure or of much less value than one was led to believe. \"For dieters, dessert becomes a forbidden fruit.\" \"Considering how often that car breaks down, I think I bought a ( https://www.merriam-webster.com ) lemon from the dealership.\" ( https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com ) For peanuts Go banana MEANING : MEANING : For a very paltry or minuscule amount To become very excited or angry. of money; for nearly no money or the absolute minimum amount. \"The crowd went bananas when the concert began.\" \"I had a few jobs during college working for peanuts, but it was the ( https://www.merriam-webster.com ) only work I could get that fit in with my schedule.\" ( https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com ) a hard nut to crack buy a lemon in a pickle apple of one's eye for peanuts life is just a bowl of cherries apples and oranges forbidden fruit (as) cool as a cucumber go banana like two peas in a pod top banana

FRUITS &VEGETABLES Idiom Restaurant In a pickle Like two peas in MEANING : a pod In a troublesome or difficult situation MEANING : \"We're in a pickle now because the Very similar, especially in appearance hotel gave our room away.\" \"The twins are like two peas in a ( https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com ) pod.\" ( https://dictionary.cambridge.org ) Life is just a bowl of Top banana cherries MEANING : MEANING : The leading person, the most Life is wonderful or very pleasant. powerful or important person in the \"I got a promotion and got engaged in the span of a week! Life is just a group or organization bowl of cherries these days!\" \"A: I'd like to be the CEO one day. ( https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com ) B: So, you want to be the top banana, huh?\" A: I do.\" ( http://www.idioms4you.com ) a hard nut to crack buy a lemon in a pickle apple of one's eye for peanuts life is just a bowl of cherries apples and oranges forbidden fruit (as) cool as a cucumber go banana like two peas in a pod top banana

BEVERAGES A storm in a teacup Idiom Restaurant MEANING : A disproportionate reaction of anger, concern, or displeasure over some minor or trivial matter. \"I really think you're making a storm in a teacup over this. It's just a tiny scratch on the car!\" ( https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com ) Champagne taste on a beer budget MEANING : Someone who lives above their means and likes expensive things they can’t possibly afford. \"A: I can’t believe Kimberly spent her entire salary on her red Jimmy Choo’s. B: That doesn’t surprise me at all, she has a champagne taste on a beer budget.\" ( https://www.gingersoftware.com ) Cry over spilled milk a storm in a teacup MEANING : champagne taste on a beer budget To feel sorry or sad about something that has already happened; used to emphasize that this cry over spilled milk is not helpful. in hot water \"It's a waste of time crying over spilled not hold water someone's cup of tea milk, he says; you just have to move on with your life.\" ( https://dictionary.cambridge.org )

BEVERAGES In hot water Idiom Restaurant MEANING : Someone is in trouble. \"The company has already been in hot water over high prices this year.\" ( https://www.collinsdictionary.com ) Not hold water MEANING : To not be or not appear to be true, verifiable, or able to be supported by facts. \"I'm afraid that excuse just doesn't hold water with me—you still should have had plenty of time to complete the assignment and print it.\" ( https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com) a storm in a teacup Someone's cup of tea champagne taste on a beer budget MEANING : cry over spilled milk Something that someone likes or is good at — in hot water usually used in negative statements. not hold water \"I'm afraid that skiing just is not my cup of someone's cup of tea tea.\" ( https://www.merriam-webster.com )

(As) sour as vinegar FLAVORINGS Idiom Restaurant MEANING : Particularly unpleasant, disagreeable, peevish, or ill-tempered \"A: Is Mary in a bad mood today? B: Yes, sour as vinegar.\" \"After such a broken night of sleep, I woke up feeling as sour as vinegar.\" ( https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com) Have a sweet tooth MEANING : To like eating things that are sugary or taste sweet. \"She has a sweet tooth; she can't resist chocolate cake and peppermint creams.\" ( https://www.collinsdictionary.com ) Take something (as) sour as vinegar have a sweet tooth a grain of salt the salt of the world take something a grain of salt MEANING : variety is the spice of life To not completely believe something that worth someone's salt you are told, because you think it is unlikely to be true \"You have to take everything she says with a grain of salt, because she tends to exaggerate.\" ( https://dictionary.cambridge.org)

The salt of the world FLAVORINGS Idiom Restaurant MEANING : A very good and honest person or group of people \"Mark is the salt of the earth so he can be trusted with a secret.\" ( https://www.merriam-webster.com ) ( https://dict.longdo.com ) Variety is the spice of life MEANING : Having many different experiences is what makes life interesting, exciting, enjoyable, or worthwhile. \"You should really start trying new foods instead of eating the same thing all the time. Variety is the spice of life.\" ( https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com) Worth someone's salt (as) sour as vinegar have a sweet tooth MEANING : take something a grain of salt Respected by other people because you do the salt of the world your job well. variety is the spice of life worth someone's salt \"Any politician worth their salt will keep their campaign promises.\" ( https://www.macmillandictionary.com )

By Aphitchaya Rukyong EGP 16