SoChic Stories
Telling salads and other food-inspired expressions
- - Gastronomy
Go and cook oneself an egg
Means… to get lost.
To tell salads
Means… to tell lies.
Water down one’s wine
Means… to tone it down.
Cut the pear in half
Means… to meet someone halfway.
Spit in the soup
Means… to be ungrateful.
Put one’s grain of salt
Means… to add one’s view to a conversation.
For a mouthful of bread
Means… for cheap, on the cheap
Make a whole cheese out of something
Means… to make a mountain out of a molehill.
Mind one’s onions
Means… to mind one’s business
Pass down the hot potato
Means… to hand a delicate situation over to someone else.
The carrots are cooked
Means… there’s no hope of changing it, it’s too late to change it.
Mustard’s coming up to my nose
Means… that I am starting to get annoyed.
