Banjo´d - drunk
elephant´s trunk - drunk in cockney rhyming slang
muffin
Burn the British: toasted English muffin-from the restaurant diner lingo
Muffin: idiot, fool. "You look like a right muffin with that hat."
"Muffin-top" is a generally pejorative, slang term used to describe the phenomenon of overhanging flesh when it spills over the waistline of trousers or skirt in a manner that resembles the top of a muffin spilling over its paper casing- from wikipedia
Muffin: idiot, fool. "You look like a right muffin with that hat."
"Muffin-top" is a generally pejorative, slang term used to describe the phenomenon of overhanging flesh when it spills over the waistline of trousers or skirt in a manner that resembles the top of a muffin spilling over its paper casing- from wikipedia
bistronomy
Bistronomy: Creative, modern, and affordable haute cuisine
After classic training at some of the city's most prestigious establishments, a number of young chefs have struck out on their own with modest daily market menus made from fresh, hand-chosen produce. Fed up with the Michelin star rat race, they have sparked what some have termed the most influential culinary trend in a decade- quote from http://gridskipper.com/travel/paris/paris-bistronomy-288769.php
Bistronomic restaurant
After classic training at some of the city's most prestigious establishments, a number of young chefs have struck out on their own with modest daily market menus made from fresh, hand-chosen produce. Fed up with the Michelin star rat race, they have sparked what some have termed the most influential culinary trend in a decade- quote from http://gridskipper.com/travel/paris/paris-bistronomy-288769.php
Bistronomic restaurant
slow food
Slow food - A movement founded by Carlo Petrini in Italy as a resistance movement to combat fast food. It claims to preserve the cultural cuisine and the associated food plants, seeds, domestic animals, and farming within an ecoregion. It was the first established part of the broader Slow movement. The movement has since expanded globally to over 83,000 members in 122 countries.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_Food)
tomato
"knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit;wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad"- Peter Kay one liners
chocolate
About as useful as a chocolate teapot- of no practical use/not helpful
"Anything is good if it's made of chocolate." Jo Brand
"Anything is good if it's made of chocolate." Jo Brand
calories
Quote - A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch. ~James Beard
artichoke
Quote: After all the trouble you go to, you get about as much actual "food" out of eating an artichoke as you would from licking 30 or 40 postage stamps. ~Miss Piggy
goose
A wild goose never laid a tame egg. - Gaelic (on authenticity)
What´s good for the goose, it´s good for the gander
What´s good for the goose, it´s good for the gander
egg
To be a bad egg - untrostworthy, corrupt
A wild goose never laid a tame egg. - Gaelic (on authenticity)
Fry two/Let the sun shine: 2 fried eggs with unbroken yolks-from the restaurant diner lingo
Adam & Eve on a raft: two poached eggs on toast--from the restaurant diner lingo
A wild goose never laid a tame egg. - Gaelic (on authenticity)
Fry two/Let the sun shine: 2 fried eggs with unbroken yolks-from the restaurant diner lingo
Adam & Eve on a raft: two poached eggs on toast--from the restaurant diner lingo
hungry
A full person does not understand the needs of the hungry. - Irish (on food and hunger)
"Nouvelle Cuisine, roughly translated, means: I can't believe I paid ninety-six dollars and I'm still hungry." Mike Kalin.
"Nouvelle Cuisine, roughly translated, means: I can't believe I paid ninety-six dollars and I'm still hungry." Mike Kalin.
water
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink
- water off a duck's back
- to be water under the bridge -something is in the past and no longer important
- to make your mouth water- when something smells or looks so good that makes you feel like eating it, hence causing you to salivate
pudding
The proof of the pudding is in the eating- something can only be judged after it has been tested
cake
Have the cake and eat it - to want more than one can handle or deserve
to be a piece of cake- to be easy
to sell like hot cakes - to sell quickly, easily or in big quantities
icing on the cake - puts the icing on the cake - an additional advantage to something, an improvement (icing) on something already good (cake)
to be a piece of cake- to be easy
to sell like hot cakes - to sell quickly, easily or in big quantities
icing on the cake - puts the icing on the cake - an additional advantage to something, an improvement (icing) on something already good (cake)
pie
to eat humble pie- to apologize and face humiliation for a serious error. Humble pie is also a term for a variety of pastries, originally based on medieval meat tripe pies pies.
crust
upper crust- the highest social class
A crust in comfort is better than a feast in fear. - Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
A crust in comfort is better than a feast in fear. - Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
meal
to get a square meal- a substantial meal
origins http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~genepool/sayings.htm
origins http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~genepool/sayings.htm
potato
couch potato - someone who watches too much telly
a hot potato- a difficult subject, or problem in business or politics that no one wants to talk about
a hot potato- a difficult subject, or problem in business or politics that no one wants to talk about
cabbage
cabbage- a bit slow/stupid
Cabbage Patch Kids are doll brand created by Xavier Roberts in 1978
Quote: Welcome to the Church of the Holy Cabbage. Lettuce pray. ~Author Unknown
Cabbage Patch Kids are doll brand created by Xavier Roberts in 1978
Quote: Welcome to the Church of the Holy Cabbage. Lettuce pray. ~Author Unknown
bread
bread - slang for money
Man cannot live by bread alone
Half a loaf is better than no bread
A miser is like a person with bread who is starving. - Middle Eastern (on greed)
to be the greatest thing since sliced bread-to be the best thing ever
Bread and Butter Barcelona -"An international specialist trade fair for Street and Urban Wear represents a marketing and communication platform for brands, labels and designers from the areas of Denim, Sportswear, Street Fashion, Function Wear and Casual Dressed Up, as well as for suppliers from the preliminary stage of the textile industry" (www.breadandbutter.com)
Man cannot live by bread alone
Half a loaf is better than no bread
A miser is like a person with bread who is starving. - Middle Eastern (on greed)
to be the greatest thing since sliced bread-to be the best thing ever
Bread and Butter Barcelona -"An international specialist trade fair for Street and Urban Wear represents a marketing and communication platform for brands, labels and designers from the areas of Denim, Sportswear, Street Fashion, Function Wear and Casual Dressed Up, as well as for suppliers from the preliminary stage of the textile industry" (www.breadandbutter.com)
kitchen
If you can´t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen - If you are unable to cope with the pressure of a job it is best giving it up
beans
beans - money
to spill the beans - To reveal a secret usually inadvertently
to be full of beans - to be full of energy
to spill the beans - To reveal a secret usually inadvertently
to be full of beans - to be full of energy
beer
beer- in English slang: amber fluid
beer - in Aust. slang : amber nectar
beer belly - Noun. A bulging stomach caused by drinking large quantities of beer.
beer chariot-safely transporting one’s self home while drunk.
beer o´clock - The time one feels is most appropriate for some alcoholic refreshment , such as beer. Often used specifically to mean the end of the working day.
beer scooter- The supposed transport one must have taken to get home when very drunk and as there is no recollection of how one did get home. slang 1990
beer tokens -money
beer - in Aust. slang : amber nectar
beer belly - Noun. A bulging stomach caused by drinking large quantities of beer.
beer chariot-safely transporting one’s self home while drunk.
beer o´clock - The time one feels is most appropriate for some alcoholic refreshment , such as beer. Often used specifically to mean the end of the working day.
beer scooter- The supposed transport one must have taken to get home when very drunk and as there is no recollection of how one did get home. slang 1990
beer tokens -money
banana
To go bananas - to go crazy/to loose control/ to be irrational
Banana bender- Australian slang for person from Queensland
"You never know where to look when eating a banana"-Peter Kay one liners
Banana bender- Australian slang for person from Queensland
"You never know where to look when eating a banana"-Peter Kay one liners
apple
apple core - cockney rhyming slang for "score"
apples and pears- cockney rhyming slang for "stairs"
the apple of my eye - Figuratively someone, cherished above others.
she´ll be apples - Australian slang for "it´ll be ok"
An apple a day keeps the doctor away
to be a bad or rotten apple- to be a bad person
to compare apples and oranges - to compare two things that are totally different
apple polishing or to polish the apple - attempting to win favor through flattery
apples and pears- cockney rhyming slang for "stairs"
the apple of my eye - Figuratively someone, cherished above others.
she´ll be apples - Australian slang for "it´ll be ok"
An apple a day keeps the doctor away
to be a bad or rotten apple- to be a bad person
to compare apples and oranges - to compare two things that are totally different
apple polishing or to polish the apple - attempting to win favor through flattery
eat
Eat your words - to admit that what you said is wrong.
Eat your heart out- you should be sorry for the choices you have made
Eat your heart out- you should be sorry for the choices you have made
Fish
A big fish in a small pond - An important person in a small place or organisation.
A fish out of water - to feel awkward or uncomfortable because you are in an unusual or unfamiliar situation
Anything with scales counts as a fish. - Malay (on appearance and reality)
To drink like a fish = to drink a lot of alcohol
A fish out of water - to feel awkward or uncomfortable because you are in an unusual or unfamiliar situation
Anything with scales counts as a fish. - Malay (on appearance and reality)
Plenty of fish in the sea -There are other people/things in the world; to have other alternaves/ to have lots of potential mates in the world
To have bigger/other fish to fry = to have something more important to doTo drink like a fish = to drink a lot of alcohol
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