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Telling salads and other food-inspired expressions

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.

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