Cooking Idioms
When
reading through a list of idioms I can’t keep myself from chuckling. Here’s a
list cooking-related idioms with no notes regarding definitions or origins. I
have hopes it will inspire a chuckle or two:
spill
the beans
not
worth a hill of beans
full
of beans
to
not know beans
bean
counter
too
many cooks spoil the broth
out
of the frying pan & into the fire
cry
over spilt milk
not
one’s cup of tea
done
to a T
cook
up a storm
cook
to perfection
burn
to a crisp
half
baked
grist
for the mill
the
pot calling the kettle black
to
bite off more than one can chew
to
bite that hand that feeds one
eat
crow
eat
dirt
eat
humble pie
eat
like a bird
eat
like a horse
eat
high on the hog
eat
one’s hat
eat
one’s heart out
eat
one’s words
easy
as pie
that
takes the cake
a
piece of cake
icing
on the cake
have
one’s cake & eat it too
Dear
readers – any chuckling? If so, what idiom(s) got you going?
The number of idioms about beans surprised me! And "easy as pie"...that got a wry chuckle.
ReplyDeleteAnybody who has tried to make pie crust knows that pie is not easy :-) We do have a lot of legume-related idioms, don't we?
ReplyDeleteHi Rachel6 & Anne,
ReplyDeleteYes, indeed, beans seem to be a Big Subject when it comes to language. Maybe the misnomer, easy-as-pie, could morph into easy-as-eating-beans or easy-as-making-up-bean-idioms.