Idiomatic Expressions

For today's post, I have decided to compile a list of idiomatic expressions involving food. Idiomatic expressions are phrases that mean or represent something, but not their literal meaning. We come to understand their meanings through frequent usage. They are also known simply as "idioms". For some of the less well-known idioms, I have also included their meaning. Enjoy!

Apple of my eye, have your cake, and eat it too, not my cup of tea, bring home the bacon, spill the beans, take with a grain of salt, sold like hot cakes, in a nutshell, one smart cookie, piece of cake, egg someone on, butter someone up, full of beans, nutty as a fruitcake, have egg on your face, couch potato, eat your words, cool as a cucumber, don't cry over spilled milk, butter up, don't put all your eggs in one basket, use your noodle (use your brain), spice it up, out to lunch (crazy), enough comments from the peanut gallery, carrot top, bad apple, two peas in a pod, it's like comparing apples and oranges, the best thing since sliced bread, cut the cheese, easy as pie, flat as a pancake, forbidden fruit, go bananas/nuts, food for thought, have your lunch handed to you, your fish is fried, icing on the cake, how do you like them apples?, life is like a bowl full of cherries, like giving candy to a baby.

Well, there are actually hundreds more, and those are just the ones about food! I listed as many of these as I could, but I found the rest on idiomconnection.com and usingenglish.com.