# Food Idioms Essentials

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- CEFR: A2 (Elementary)
- Theme: Idioms & Expressions
- Words: 12
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Food idioms for describing everyday situations, with phrases like piece of cake, cool as a cucumber and bring home the bacon borrowed from food and eating.

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## Word list

* **piece of cake**: Something that is very easy to do. — “The test was **a piece of cake**.”
* **cool as a cucumber**: Very calm and relaxed, even under pressure. — “Despite the chaos, she stayed **cool as a cucumber**.”
* **hot potato**: A controversial subject that people prefer to avoid dealing with. — “Salary cuts became a real **hot potato** at the meeting.”
* **bring home the bacon**: To earn the money that supports a family. — “Both parents work hard to **bring home the bacon**.”
* **bread and butter**: The main way someone earns the money they need to live. — “Teaching guitar lessons is his **bread and butter**.”
* **the best thing since sliced bread**: Something considered excellent, useful or exciting, especially something new. — “He thinks his new phone is **the best thing since sliced bread**.”
* **a big cheese**: An important or powerful person in a company. — “She's become **a big cheese** at the company since her promotion.”
* **easy as pie**: Very simple to do. — “Fixing the bike tire was **easy as pie**.”
* **packed like sardines**: Crowded very tightly together in a small space. — “We were **packed like sardines** on the rush-hour train.”
* **the cherry on top**: An extra good thing added to something that was already good. — “Free dessert was **the cherry on top** of a great meal.”
* **as sweet as honey**: Very kind and pleasant, sometimes insincerely so. — “She was **as sweet as honey** until the paperwork went wrong.”
* **eat like a bird**: To eat very little. — “She would **eat like a bird** all week and then finish a whole pie.”

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