Food Idioms

I love to sit around and chew the fat with old friends

  chew the fat  

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talk or chat  

 Everyone knows that our math teacher is out to lunch

is out to lunch 

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 behaves in a crazy manner

Blood Is Thicker Than Water

Blood Is Thicker Than Water 

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Refers to family ties, and situations where loyalty to family is more important than other considerations 

As High As A Kite

As High As A Kite 

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This is usually a slang term in modern usage, referring to people who are drunk. In older usage it was also a term for happiness 

 

put the pin lid on it

put the pin lid on it

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to make matters ten times worse

Idioms with come

Idioms with come 

Can you repeat that===؟Come again 

reprimand==come down hard on  

was revealed ==came to light  

come up with ===discover 

happened==come true 

came down with == got sick with 

comes down to ==is because of 

coming in for ==going to go through 

came out of===suddenly appeared 

come to terms with ==objectively and entirely confront and understand

two

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush   

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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush as they say when you have at least one definite thing in contrast to two uncertain things

It wouldn't take much for me to cancel that trip in fact for two pins I think I will 

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it means that if given only the smallest reason or encouragement, you will cancel the trip 

Quite honestly I really can't decide which one to choose  I'm what you might say in two minds 

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It means you are not able to decide

 

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in two shakes of a lamb's tail is an idiom which means in a very short period of time/very fast/in no time 

I'll see to that in two ticks and it'll be all over in a minute 

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The meaning of 'in two ticks' is clear in no time, right 

You honestly can't tell one twin from another as they are like as two peas in a pod 

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exactly the same in appearance, behaviour etc 

I worked out the answer in the end by putting two and two together 

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If you put two and two together you make a logical connection between two facts 

I honestly wouldn't trust either of them. They both think the same way and they're two of a kind=================== 

two, three etc people or things that are very similar 

there are no two ways about it 

ّّّّّّّI can see you're angry and want to do the same to them but remember that two wrongs don't make a right

I promise I'll be very quick indeed and I'll be back in two shakes of a lamb's tail

water

he treated it as water off a duck's back  

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of no importance  

 He was told that the new plan he'd developed just wouldn't hold water

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wouldn't work 

Every time we came up with a new proposal, he would throw cold water on it    

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discourage it 

After all the money that she's borrowed and also spent, she now finds herself in deep water   
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in defeat

  He's decided to make a fresh start and regards all his old problems as water under the bridge  

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not worth worrying about 

  Once he's earned a bit of money he immediately spends it like water   

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spends it freely 

she always feels like a fish out of water 

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uncomfortable
 

It's many years since we last met and a lot of water has passed under the bridge since then  

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a lot has happened
 

 The jewels in that showcase are clearly of the first water

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of high quality 

Their job as advisers was to pour oil on troubled waters 

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calm things down

straw man

straw man 

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a weak opponent or imaginary argument that can easily be defeated 

straw in the wind

straw in the wind 

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a sign of what might happen in the future 

There have been a few straws in the wind suggesting things might be getting a little better 

straw

be clutching/grasping at straws 

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 to be trying everything you can to succeed, even though the things you are doing are not likely to help or work

the last straw 

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the last insult or mistake that one can endure and which then causes some reaction 

the straw that breaks the camel's back 

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the last problem in a series of problems that finally makes you give up, get angry etc 

Making me work late on Friday was the last straw 

a cloud on the horizon

a cloud on the horizon 

a problem or difficulty which you expect to happen in the future  

 The only cloud on the horizon is the physics  

the air

Don't worry about her, she always gives herself airs and graces  

: means  

She always thinks she's very important 

I honestly think the time has come to clear the air  

 :means

 to make things simpler
  

 There's a lot of discussion in the air about it  

: mean  

 that's not definite 

  
I don't know about you but I feel like taking the air at the moment 

: means

 going for a walk 

 

When I told him the news, he went up in the air  

    :means       

 he became angry
 

You know what they're like. They just talked a lot of hot air                            

                 : means    

 empty promises
  

The radio play is on the air later tonight  

: means 

 being broadcast
    

As soon as they heard the news, they were walking on air

means    

 were very happy

The concert is being played in the open air on Sunday  means  

 outside

Add fuel to the fire

Add fuel to the fire  

If people add fuel to the fire, they make a bad situation worse  

Act of God

Act of God  

An act of God is something like an earthquake or floods that human beings cannot prevent or control 

A OK

 A OK                   

If things are A OK, they are absolutely fine  

a watched pot never boils

  a watched pot never boils 

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Some things work out in their own time, so being impatient and constantly checking will just make things seem longer.  

slip one's mind

slip one's  mind =go (right/clean) out of somebody's mind 

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something goes out of your mind, you forget it, especially because you are very busy 

I'm sorry. So much has been happening, it went clean out of my mind
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t had completely slipped her mind that Dave still had a key to the house

eating her words

I knew when Sandra told the lie that she would be eating her words later 

eating her words ==admitting to her untrue claims

is out to lunch

 Everyone knows that our math teacher is out to lunch

 is out to lunch==behaves in a crazy manner