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Food Idioms Worksheet

Instructions: ​Write the meanings of the idiomatic expressions and create sentences using the expressions.

Idiom / Phrase Meaning Example Sentence

apple of my eye

bad egg

basket case

be nuts about

big cheese

bite off more than one


can chew

bitter pill

bread and butter

bring home the bacon

butter someone up

cheap as chips

couch potato

cream of the crop

cry over spilled milk

cup of joe

cut the cheese

cut the mustard

egg someone on

freeze your buns off

full of beans

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gravy train

hard nut to crack

have a bun in the oven

have your cake and eat


it too

heard it through the


grapevine

hot potato

in a nutshell

make from scratch

my cup of tea

on a silver platter

out to lunch

piece of cake

piss in my cornflakes

put all of the eggs in one


basket

smart cookie

spice things up

spill the beans

take the cake

take with a grain of salt

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