The Whole Enchilada!

Have you ever noticed how many idioms, sayings, and similes are about foods? I have gathered some here (not all of them for sure). I was trying to get some for each letter of the alphabet. Some I just couldn’t find. If you happen to come upon any that have foods beginning with letters I couldn’t find, please send them along in the comments!

A

• apple of my eye
• bad apples
• how do like them apples?

B

• bun in the oven
• spill the beans
• go bananas
• bring home the bacon
• butter someone up

C

• smart cookie
• it’s a piece of cake
• cool as a cucumber

D

hot diggety dog? Not very good. Got one????

E

• the whole enchilada
• put all your eggs in one basket
• egg someone on
• you’re a rotten egg

F

• the whole kettle of fish
• bigger fish to fry

G

• your goose is cooked
• on the gravy train
• the rest is gravy
• sour grapes

H

• you’re a real ham
• sweet as honey
• sell like hotcakes

I

• the icing on the cake

J

In a jam. Wrong kind of jam. Got one???????

K

Got one??????????

L

• That car is a real lemon
• When life gives you lemons

M

• don’t cry over spilt milk
• can you cut the mustard?

N

• that’s it in a nutshell
• you are nuts
• hard nut to crack

O

• compare apples and oranges

P

• you’re a real peach
• the situation is a hot potato
• plum job
• like two peas in a pod
• flat as a pancake
• in a real pickle

Q

??????????????????? Yeah! try that one! Quince? 

R

• blow a raspberry (not great)

S

• from soup to nuts
• salt of the earth
• sugarcoat something
• take that with a grain of salt
• those were the salad days (good old days)

T

• not my cup of tea
• I am warm as toast

U

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V

• she is full of spit and vinegar (perkiness)

W

• water under the bridge. Meh….got a better one?

X

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Y

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Z

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