MODULE 5 - SECTION 2 - UNIT 1

SECTION TITLE - VOCABULARY

UNIT TITLE - LIST OF IDIOMS ON FOOD

To have butter fingers To butter (someone) up

To go nuts A couch potato
To go bananas The cream of the crop
It’s no picnic The fruit of your labor
To sell like hot cakes A hard nut to crack
The apple of my eye To eat like a horse
Food for thought To have a lot on your plate
To save someone’s bacon We are in a pickle
To know your onions (not to be confused with “it’s none of your business) Like 2 peas in a pod
Money for jam Not for all the tea in China
A bad egg Packed in like sardines
In apple-pie order Pie in the sky
As red as beetroot To spill the beans
As flat as a pancake To stew in your own juice
Eat your cake and have it too To take something with a grain of salt
The spice of life To grab a bite
To walk on eggshells The icing on the cake
To eat humble pie In a nutshell
A bitter pill to swallow To make mincemeat out of someone
To compare apples and oranges A piece of cake