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Food idioms

a couch potato

potato

couch

a lazy person
«That’s peanuts!»

peanut

small amount of money/


of little or no value
a big cheese

cheese

big

an important and influential


person
one tough cookie

cookie
tough

a veryadetermined
lazy personperson
the top banana
top

banana

a lazy
the chief person
person in a group
be a bad apple

apple

bad

beaalazy person
troublemaker
be out to lunch

very confused
a lazy person
not in touch with the real world
have a sweet tooth

sweet tooth

a lazy
like person
sweet food
sour grapes

sour grapes

a lazyresentment
envy/ person
a piece of cake

cake
piece

a lazy easy
person

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