Idioms using Food – 3

hot potato

MEANING: a question or argument that is controversial and difficult to settle

EXAMPLE: The issue of building the nuclear power plant is a real hot potato for the local town council.

 in a nutshell

MEANING: briefly, in a few words

EXAMPLE: We went to the meeting and they told us in a nutshell what would be happening to everyone next year.

 in the soup

MEANING: in serious trouble, in disorder

EXAMPLE: She is really in the soup now. She told her boss that she was sick but he saw her downtown shopping.

 make one’s mouth water

MEANING: look or smell very good, want to eat or drink very much

EXAMPLE: The restaurant is supposed to be wonderful and every time that I see the menu it makes my mouth water.

 nutty as a fruitcake

MEANING: crazy

EXAMPLE: He is a very nice man but he acts strange sometimes and I often think that he is as nutty as a fruitcake.

 out of the frying pan and into the fire

MEANING: go from something bad to something worse

EXAMPLE: 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.

out to lunch

MEANING: crazy, mad

EXAMPLE: She is totally out to lunch and you should never believe what she tells you.

 piece of cake

MEANING: a task that is easily accomplished

EXAMPLE: It was a piece of cake. I had everything done before lunch this morning.

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