Food idioms

apple of one's eye - someone or something that you like a lot. The little girl is the apple of her father's eye.
butter up - flatter someone to try to get their favor or friendship. He spends most of his free time trying to butter up his boss so that he won't have to work so hard.
chew the fat - chat. We stayed up very late last night chewing the fat about our university days.
cool as a cocumber - calm, not nervous or anxious. he is always as cool as a cocumber and never worries about anything

cup of tea - something one enjoys or does well. Going to art gallerries is not my cup of tea so I think that I will stay home this evening and not go with you.
cut the mustard - succeed, do well enough what needs to be done. he wasn't able to cut the mustard so he had to leave the army after just one year.
eat one's words - take back something one has said, admit something is not true. I told my boss that I would be leaving but later I had to eat my words and tell him that I wanted to stay.
full of beans - feel energetic, in high spirits. She is full of beans tonight and doesn't want to stop talking.
half-baked - not thought out or studied carefully. He has a half baked idea about starting a new business but most of us think that it will fail.
hit the sauce - drink alcohol - usually regularly. I think that she has begun to hit the sauce since her husband lost his job.
in a nutshell - briefly, in few words. We went to the meeting and they told us in a nutshell what would be happening to everyone next year.
out of the frying pan and into the fire - go from something bad to something worse. She quit the job because of some small problems but she has jumped out of the frying pan and into the fire because now her problems are much worse
piece of cake - a task that is easily accomplished. It was a piece of cake. I had everything done before lunch this morning.
salt away - save money. He has been working there for seven years and he has been able to salt away quite a lot of money.
sell like hotcakes - sell quickly or rapidly. The new CD has only been released for about a week but already it is selling like hotcakes.
spill the beans - tell a secret to someone who is not supposed to know about it. Please don't spill the beans about my plans to quit working and go back to school next year.
upset the applecart - ruin a plan or event by surprise or accident. Everything was going well at the company until he came along and upset the applecart
worth one's salt - being a good worker, worth what one is paid. he has only been working here for a month but over and over he has proved that he is worth his salt.