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Food Idioms & Vocabulary

A piece of cake, cheap as chips, a cuppa: food and drink English, from idioms and slang to what’s on the table.

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All 40 Idioms 15 Photo Vocab 9 Slang 9 British Culture 5 Phrasal Verbs 3 Proverbs 3

Black and white photo of a street food chef frying noodles in a wok, labelled with the English words chef, fry, and wok

Chef Vocabulary: Essential English Words for the Kitchen

that's the way the cookie crumbles

Idiom – That’s The Way The Cookie Crumbles

wake up and smell the coffee idiom

Idiom – Wake Up And Smell The Coffee

in a pickle idiom

Idiom – In A Pickle

cakewalk idiom

Idiom – Cakewalk

bread vocabulary

Bread Vocabulary

A ripe avocado sliced in half, showing the stone and flesh, labelled with related English vocabulary

Avocado Vocabulary

continental breakfast vocabulary

Continental Breakfast Vocabulary

Cutlery Vocabulary

Cutlery Vocabulary

idiom-apple-of-my-eye

Idiom – The Apple Of My Eye

idiom a few sandwiches short of a picnic

Idiom – A Few Sandwiches Short Of A Picnic

idiom pinch of salt

Idiom – Pinch Of Salt

bring home the bacon idiom

Idiom – Bring Home The Bacon

cocktail vocabulary

Cocktail Vocabulary

fine dining vocabulary

Fine Dining Vocabulary

salt of the earth idiom

Idiom – Salt Of The Earth

A bunch of ripe bananas on display in a supermarket, labelled with the words banana, bunch and supermarket

Banana Vocabulary

piece of cake idiom

Idiom – A Piece Of Cake

pear shaped

British Culture, Slang

Slang – Go pear shaped

egg vocabulary

Egg Vocabulary

eat out phrasal verb

Phrasal Verb – Eat Out

eat in phrasal verb

Phrasal Verb – Eat in

whet your appetite idiom

Idiom – Whet Your Appetite

cheap as chips idiom

British Culture, Idioms

Idiom – Cheap As Chips

slang - cup of joe

Slang – Cup Of Joe

tea

British Culture

British Culture – Tea

if you pay peanuts you get monkeys

Proverb – If You Pay Peanuts, You Get Monkeys

Scrumptious

Slang – Scrumptious

idiom - eat words

Idiom – Eat Your Words

Photo of ripe red cherries on a tree with the example sentence The politician cherry-picked statistics to support his claim, meaning to carefully select only the best or most suitable

Idiom – Cherry-pick

Photo of two people walking up an outdoor staircase, illustrating the Cockney rhyming slang phrase apples and pears, meaning stairs

British Culture, Slang

Slang – Apples And Pears

Person overwhelmed by a stack of paperwork and tasks, illustrating the idiom too much on my plate

Idiom – Too Much On My Plate

Watercolour cartoon of four chefs making a mess around one bowl, with the proverb 'too many cooks spoil the broth', an example sentence and its meaning

Too Many Cooks Spoil The Broth

An apple a day keeps the doctor away

An Apple A Day Keeps The Doctor Away

Slang - Pig out

Phrasal Verbs, Slang

Phrasal Verb – Pig Out

A dessert of crepes with fruit and chocolate sauce, overlaid with the word 'YUMMY'

Slang – Yummy

A floral teacup and saucer with the British slang word cuppa, meaning a cup of tea

Slang – Cuppa

A crispy battered fish fillet served on a bed of chips in a takeaway tray

British Culture

British Culture – Fish And Chips

A potato with googly eyes sitting on a pile of chips, illustrating the slang term spuds

Slang – Spuds

Table spread with nachos, guacamole and appetisers, illustrating the slang term foodie

Slang – Foodie

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