15 Famous Food Idioms Part 1
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It means, 'something that causes dispute', or 'any type of cause of dispute', or 'something that cause trouble', or 'something that cause unhappiness'.
Sentence Making:
Their father's property is an apple of discord between the two brothers.
2- Apple pie order
Meaning:It means, 'everything arranged perfectly or in the right place'.
Sentence Making:
Their office and house are always in apple-pie order.
3- A piece of cake
Meaning:It means, 'to do something that is very easy' or 'very easy'.
Sentence Making:
Actually, I was very much worried about taking the game task, but it was a piece of cake, I won it.
4- Cup of tea
Meaning:It means, 'some kind of work that is not of your interest', or 'a kind of work you don't like at all', or 'you are not interested in some kind of work'.
Sentence Making:
Playing computer games is not my cup of tea, I like reading books.
5- Cream of the crop
Meaning:It means, 'choose the best person', or 'select the best person'.
Sentence Making:
The officer chooses the cream of the crop to manage the office.
6- Hard nut to crack
Meaning:It means, 'difficult to understand', or 'someone that is difficult to understand', or 'some kind of work that is difficult to understand'.
Sentence Making:
He is a hard nut to crack when he is in great danger.
It is not a hard nut to crack to make a facial mask.
7- Hot potato
Meaning:It means, 'a controversial or difficult subject', or 'a controversial argument'.
Sentence making:
Choosing a suitable name for his clothing store is a hot potato for us.
8- Sell like a hot cake
Meaning:It means, 'Sell something very quickly', or 'something bought by many people', or 'sell rapidly'.
Sentence Making:
I am a very lucky person because my novels sold like hotcakes.
9- Couch Potato
Meaning:It means, 'a very lazy person', or 'a person that always sit on the sofa and stay at home and watching TV all day'.
Sentence making:
He is a couch potato because he stays at home and watch TV every day and do nothing.
10- Cool as a cucumber
Meaning:It means,'' 'a very cool and calm person', or 'to remain calm even in a difficult situation'.
Sentence Making
He is as cool as cucumber and never worries about his future.
11- A big cheese
Meaning:It means, 'An important person', or 'a leader'.
Sentence Making:
My neighbor Mr. Robert is a big cheese in his office.
12- Cry over a spilt milk
Meaning:It means, 'to cry or complain about something that has already happened'.
Sentence making:
To cry over spilt milk is not good because what is done is done.
13- Nutty as a fruitcake
Meaning:It means, 'a crazy person', or 'to be slightly crazy'.
Sentence making:
She is a nutty as a fruitcake to run the fashion shop.
14- Eat a humble pie
Meaning:It means, 'to be humble', or 'to admit one's error and apologize'.
Sentence Making:
She was forced to eat a humble pie after she made a big mistake.
15- Egg (someone) on or egg on (someone)
Meaning:It means, 'to encourage someone to something (often something bad or wrong or dangerous)'.
Sentence making:
His college fellows egged him on to bunk his class.