What does spring up in your mind when you hear the word 'food'? Some people imagine a huge table with a bunch of tasty things on it. They can be sweet, sour or even spicy. So, let's spice our speech up with some food idioms.
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IT'S LIKE APPLES AND ORANGES
Apples and oranges refers to two incommensurable items, i.e., a comparison of things that cannot be compared. Though they are both fruits, apples and oranges are separated by color, taste, juiciness, and 89.2 million years of evolution.
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THE BIG CHEESE
The word cheese can refer to a person or thing that is important or splendid as well as to the delicious dairy product. The usage is thought to have origins in Urdu, from the Persian chiz meaning "thing." In common usage, the big cheese is a person of importance or authority.
SPILL THE BEANS
English speakers have been using the word spill to mean "divulge secret information" since 1547, but spilling the beans, in particular, may predate the term by millennia.
Many historians claim that secret societies in ancient Greece voted by dropping black or white beans into a clay urn. To spill those beans would be to reveal the results of a secret vote.
NOT MY CUP OF TEA
Popularized in British Edwardian slang, cup of tea originally referred to something pleasant or agreeable.The negative usage as in not my cup of tea arose during World War II as a more polite way to say you didn't like something. "You don't say someone gives you a pain in the neck," explained Alistair Cooke in his 1944 Letter from America. You just remark, 'he's not my cup of tea.'"
WALKING ON EGGSHELLS
This idiom is our most delicate: walking on eggshells or "taking great care not to upset someone." It is thought to have originated in politics when diplomats were described as having the remarkable ability to tread so lightly around difficult situations, it was as though they were walking on eggshells.
From Dictionary.com
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