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Randy D

Grain of salt. Tall drink of water. Carrot-Top. Coffee-colored. Two peas in a pod. Piece of meat. Rice-burner. Mushroom cloud.


  What are some other expressions that have the name of a food in them yet are not precisely related to food or to eating?
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Posted - August 24, 2018
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  • 16777
    Ginger 
    Onion spire
    Pork pie hat
    Pressed ham (mooning against a window)
      August 24, 2018 6:30 AM MDT
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  • Fruitcake
    Fish out of water
    Old crab
    Food for thought
    Spice in your life
    Cabbagehead
    Eye Candy (Didn't we just do this?)
      August 24, 2018 9:18 AM MDT
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  • 10026
    !  All of those are good.  I'm fresh out of grocery thoughts at the moment.  I'm still on the intimate partner words he asked earlier.  This post was edited by Merlin at August 24, 2018 6:43 PM MDT
      August 24, 2018 10:12 AM MDT
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  • 10026
    Hmmm. Let me think.  How about:
    Turkey-neck
    pruned skin
    wrinkled as a raisin
    apple of my eye
    sweet as pie
    sat like rows of corn
    slippery butter

      August 24, 2018 10:18 AM MDT
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  • 18
    sugarcoat
    cherry-pick
    cream of the crop
    top banana
    butterfingers
    strawberry blonde
    sour grapes
    pie in the sky
    use your noodle
    not my cup of tea
    bun in the oven
    cool as a cucumber
    full of beans
    gravy train
    one smart cookie
      August 24, 2018 4:35 PM MDT
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  • 17596
    cracker jack
    cute as pie
    cheesy
    cheese ball
    sour grapes
    ham it up




      August 24, 2018 10:50 PM MDT
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  • 1633
    A fine kettle of fish
    In a pickle
    Butter up
    Deep in hot water
    Spill the beans
    Cut the mustard
    Corn-holed
    Corny
    Clam up
    Cold as a cucumber
    Cauliflower ear
    In a stew
    Egg on your face
    Egg on
    Goose egg
    Spammed
    Jive Turkey
      August 24, 2018 11:03 PM MDT
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  • 10026
    You know, I've haven't thought about how truly bizarre this is until this question and all your answers.  I wonder what other languages use food as a simile or means of expressing how they feel or how someone looks.  The even weirder thing is most of us do it and understand it.  What an odd craze to start.  It could be telling us we should eat before trying to communicate anything  Maybe it is telling us we should eat before try to communicate. :) :)
      August 25, 2018 12:23 AM MDT
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  • 1633
    Actually, I don't find it so odd.  Food is such a central and vital part of our existence that it only seems natural to use it as analogies of expression.  It's like how we call money (another very vital part of our existence) "lettuce", "bread" or "dough" or how we call anything pleasing or satisfying to us "mother's milk".  As to the other part of your reply, I have studied German and Spanish and am not away of any prominent food based idioms.  I will begin to ask around of my foreign pals :) 
      August 25, 2018 10:15 AM MDT
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  • 17
    Pleased as punch
    Muffin top
    Salad days
    Meathead
    Easy as pie
    Apple-pie order
    Piece of cake
    Nothing-burger
    Cornball
    Peanut gallery
    The big apple
    Salt of the earth
    Not for all the tea in China
    Dollars to doughnuts
    Humble pie
    Beer belly
    Cold turkey 
    Soup to nuts
    Road apple
    Forbidden fruit
    Milk of human kindness This post was edited by mojo at August 25, 2018 10:02 AM MDT
      August 25, 2018 2:39 AM MDT
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  • 1633
    Land of milk and honey
    One bad apple
    Comparing apples and oranges
    Selling like hot cakes
    Nuts
    Nutty
    Oh fudge!
    Got a beef/beefing
    Taking candy from a baby
    In a jam
    Peanut operation
    Small potatoes
    Small fry
    Candy coated


    This post was edited by bevo at August 25, 2018 1:41 PM MDT
      August 25, 2018 10:23 AM MDT
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  • 47
    As different as chalk and cheese
    Finger in every pie
    Flat as a pancake
    Nutty as a fruitcake
    Slow as molasses in January
    Thick as pea soup
    Warm as toast
    The big enchilada
    Carrot and stick
    Your goose is cooked
    Couch potato
    Go bananas
    Greatest thing since sliced bread
    Bigger fish to fry
    Icing on the cake
    Life is a bowl of cherries
    Make mincemeat out of
    Not worth a hill of beans
    Packed in like sardines
    That takes the cake
    Polish the apple
    That's the way the cookie crumbles
    Too many cooks spoil the broth
    The whole enchilada
    Don't know beans about
    A few sandwiches short of a picnic
    Cookie cutter houses
    Butter wouldn't melt in his mouth
    An apple a day keeps the doctor away
    Butter-side down
    Chew the fat
    Can't make an omelette without breaking some eggs
      August 25, 2018 10:15 PM MDT
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  • 22891
    not sure
      September 8, 2018 6:00 PM MDT
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