FOODIE EXPRESSIONS V

Answer each clue with an expression containing a type of food or drink.

1. Simple

2. Impossible, unrealistic

3. From beginning to end

4. Keep your options open 

5. Deserving of respect or pay 

6. Metaphor for "the best thing"

7. Metaphor for a vast quantity

8. How the Great Plains appear to be 

9. More important things to attend to 

10. Have little information about a subject  

11. Purchase a car that has a lot of problems 

 

Answers: 

 

1. Easy a pie

2. Pie in the sky

3. From soup to nuts

4. Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

5. Worth your salt

6. Sliced bread

7. All the tea in China 

8. Flat as a pancake

9. Have bigger fish to fry 

10. Know beans about

11. Buy a lemon 

FOODIE EXPRESSIONS IV

Answer each clue with an expression containing a type of food or drink.

1. Think

2. Lose it 

3. Nitty-gritty 

4. Post-marriage trip

5. That's the way it goes 

6. Snug and comfortable 

7. Be extra careful not to offend 

8. Can't keep in stock, as a product 

9. Honest, hard-working, decent person

10. Emotionally distant, unfriendly person

 

Answers:

 

1. Use your noodle

2. Go bananas

3. Meat and potatoes

4. Honeymoon

5. How the cookie crumbles

6. Warm as toast

7. Walk on eggshells

8. Sells like hotcakes

9. Salt of the earth

10. Cold fish  

 

FOODIE EXPRESSIONS III

Answer each clue with an expression containing a type of food or drink.

1. Simple task

2. Intellectual type

3. The best of the best

4. Very controversial subject or issue 

5. Something of little value or importance 

6. Metaphor for an easy, pleasant, care-free life 

7. Person or problem that is very hard to deal with 

8. Troublemaker or corrupt one who spoils it for others

9. Two completely different things that can't be compared

10. Disguise bad news or hard facts by talking about them in a way that makes them softer -  less harsh or painful than they really are

 

Answers:

 

1. Piece of cake

2. Egghead

3. Cream of the crop

4. Hot potato

5. Small potatoes / Hill of beans

6. Bowl of cherries

7. Hard nut to crack

8. Bad apple

9. Apple and oranges

10. Sugarcoat  

FOODIE EXPRESSIONS II

Answer each clue with an expression containing a type of food or drink.

1. Pregnant

2. Earn a living 

3. Reveal a secret 

4. Calm and relaxed

5. Difficult situation  

6. Fail in public way

7. What's done is done 

8. Crowded into small space 

9. VIP - sometimes said light-heartedly

10. Praise and flatter with a hidden motive 

11. You have to make a choice between two things

 

Answers:

 

1. Have a bun in the oven

2. Bring home the bacon

3. Spill the beans

4. Cool as a cucumber

5. In a pickle

6. Lay an egg

7. Don't cry over spilled milk.

8. Packed like sardines 

9. Big cheese

10. Butter up

11. You can't have your cake and eat it too.  

FOODIE EXPRESSIONS I

Answer each clue with an expression containing a type of food or drink. 

1. Sedentary sort - especially before a TV

2. Something to - or not to - your liking

3. Facial hair before starting to shave 

4. Feeling foolish or embarrassed

5. Easy work for good money

6. Regard lightly 

7. Clever one

8. Nice mess 

9. Just alike

10. Summary

11. Favorite 

 

Answers:

 

1. Couch potato

2. Cup of tea

3. Peach fuzz

4. Have egg on your face

5. Gravy train

6. Take with a grain of salt

7. Smart cookie

8. Fine kettle of fish 

9. Two peas in a pod

10. In a nutshell

11. Apple of one's eye