
Idioms with Food Words
If you haven’t already, have a look at my last post about idioms, what they are, which to learn and how to learn them.
Can you guess the idiom from the following picture?
Is it a hill, mountain or path?
Is it made of fruit, cheese or beans?
Do you think it means:
a. Something that is very important?
b. Something of very little value?
The answers are at the bottom of this post.
We have lots of food-related idioms in English. Here are some more. Find out their meaning and try drawing them. Don’t forget to share your drawings with us!
- It’s a piece of cake.
- Take something with a grain of salt.
- Walk on eggshells
- To bite off more than you can chew.
- Eat your heart out!
- A couch potato
- To butter someone up
- To spill the beans
- To spill the tea
- To egg someone on.
Answer
A hill of beans = something of very little value e.g. ‘The problem didn’t amount to a hill of beans’.
Check out some idioms with ‘Time’ and idioms with Weather words.
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