What are some other everyday expressions or adages that use the names of foods but do not refer to that food? To increase how interesting this can be, would you please include any of them that you know in other languages* too? Thanks!
*Please provide the English translation of any foreign-language entries, if you would be so kind.
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It’s as easy as pie.
You want to have your cake and eat it too.
That’s the way the cookie crumbles.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
There’s no use crying over spilt milk.
works for or is paid peanuts
to get into or to be in a pickle
to drop or fall like a sack of potatoes
to buy or bought a lemon or it turned out to be a lemon
to put or keep all one’s eggs in one basket
to go bananas
to be full of beans
to spill the beans
he’s nuts
he goes nuts
to butter someone up
to be the cream of the crop
the apple of his eye
like peas in a pod.
easy as pie
take it with a grain of salt
Jane S 