Idioms (Food)

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Appetite

  • If something makes your mouth water, it makes you want to eat it.
  • If you say that someone has a sweet tooth, you mean that they particulary like sweet things.
  • Whet you appetite  can be used to mean awaken a desire.

Sweet and Sour

  • The icing on the cake  refers not only to the sugar coating on a cake but also to something that makes a good situation ever better.
  • The expression you can't have your cake and eat it or you want to have your cake and eat it  is used refer to the fact that two good things are impossible to do or have at the same time.
  • If an experience leaves a sour taste in your mouth, you have an unpleasant memory of it.
  • If you do something to the bitter end, you see it through to the end even though it takes a long time and is difficult.

Specific foods

  • You'll have egg on your face  if your plan doesn't work!
  • I love my walkman. For me, it's the best thing since sliced bread.
  • Taxi-driving is his bread and butter though he also writes music.
  • At last our work is bearing fruit.

In the supermarket

  • If you say something or someone is flavour of the month, it means that that thing or person is very popular.
  • The phrase be past or pass one's sell-by date is often used humorously to refer to a person or thing that is not wanted or used any more because they are too old.

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