FOOD IDIOMS: 14.

She should get out more, she's turning into a real couch

1. I thought I was just going to interview the secretary, but they potato.

let me talk to the big cheese himself. 15. When Harry lost his job, he was really in the soup.

2. Please tell me the bread and butter of  your  report.  Don’t  go   16. I'm looking for a job. I need to do something to bring home

into details. the bacon.

3. Rick  wants  to  be  rich  but  he  doesn’t  want  to  work.  He  wants  to   17. This contract is small potatoes, but it keeps us in business till

have his cake and eat it too. we get into the real money.

4. He had the ball, but he dropped it! What a butterfingers! 18. He'll go bananas if she sees the room in this state.

5. I thought I was afraid of flying, but I was cool as a cucumber

all the way to England. 1. Look at the sentences above and match the expressions in
bold with their meaning:
6. We invited the cream of the crop to entertain us at the
Christmas party.
a cowardly person to earn money to live easy, simple
7. You're going to have to really use your noodle on this
a lazy individual, addicted to television-watching.
crossword puzzle. It's very difficult!
8. I'm nuts about classical music these days. somebody who often drops things an important influential person
9. Your daughter is one smart cookie. She reads much higher
а  person who cannot be trusted use your brain
than her grade level
10. Don’t  worry!  This  test  is  piece of cake. I finished it in twenty something or someone insignificant like a lot
minutes.
the essential part of to be in serious trouble
11. Fred will never ask Lucy for a date. He is a chicken.
12. I don't know beans about computers - I've never even used want more than you need the best to become very angry
one.
to know nothing about something very relaxed
13. He never phoned his mother. He was a bad egg.
a very intelligent person