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Food idioms

A piece of cake:    an easy thing to do

Bread and butter :  just the basic income to make ends meet

To  cry over spilled  milk : repent for something you've done

A hot potato:   an issue to which it is difficult  to find a solution

To be beer and skittles :  (often used  in the negative)   a pleasant event

Other fish to fry :  other, more important  problems to solve

To go bananas:   to go  temporarily  angry or crazy

In a nutshell :  summed  up in few words or lines

( to have) a finger in the pie :  to meddle in something  ( even if not asked)

Not one's cup of tea  :  something that one does not like

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1. Go and visit the Art Gallery without me: art galleries or ancient castles are not my a finger in the piea piece of cakebananasbeer and skittlesbread and buttercry over spilled milkcup of teahot potatoin a nutshellother fish to fry I don't know.

2. I can't stand Marion when she interferes in our work: she always wants to have a finger in the piea piece of cakebananasbeer and skittlesbread and buttercry over spilled milkcup of teahot potatoin a nutshellother fish to fry I don't know.

3. After a few months spent at the summer camp, I found out it was not all a finger in the piea piece of cakebananasbeer and skittlesbread and buttercry over spilled milkcup of teahot potatoin a nutshellother fish to fry I don't know.

4. I don't earn much working in that restaurant : just the a finger in the piea piece of cakebananasbeer and skittlesbread and buttercry over spilled milkcup of teahot potatoin a nutshellother fish to fry I don't know.

5. Come on Julia, don't ask me to take part in the competition I have a finger in the piea piece of cakebananasbeer and skittlesbread and buttercry over spilled milkcup of teahot potatoin a nutshellother fish to fry I don't know.

6. The poem “Tintern Abbey “ is considered Wordsworth's philosophy a finger in the piea piece of cakebananasbeer and skittlesbread and buttercry over spilled milkcup of teahot potatoin a nutshellother fish to fry I don't know.

7. This problem is easy to solve:just a finger in the piea piece of cakebananasbeer and skittlesbread and buttercry over spilled milkcup of teahot potatoin a nutshellother fish to fry I don't know.

8. When I told Dad about my failure at the examination he went a finger in the piea piece of cakebananasbeer and skittlesbread and buttercry over spilled milkcup of teahot potatoin a nutshellother fish to fry I don't know.

9. The welfare system in the USA has been discussed for years: I think it's a a finger in the piea piece of cakebananasbeer and skittlesbread and buttercry over spilled milkcup of teahot potatoin a nutshellother fish to fry I don't know.

10. Do not a finger in the piea piece of cakebananasbeer and skittlesbread and buttercry over spilled milkcup of teahot potatoin a nutshellother fish to fry I don't know : I told you you would make a great mistake.