- A dish fit for the gods
- A dog's breakfast
- A dog's dinner
- À la carte
- A norange
- A sledgehammer to crack a nut
- A watched pot never boils
- Adam's ale
- All you can eat
- Amber nectar
- An apple a day keeps the doctor away
- Apple pie order
- As alike as two peas in a pod
- As brown as a berry
- As cool as a cucumber
- As different as chalk and cheese
- As easy as pie
- As easy as taking candy from a baby
- As keen as mustard
- Baker's dozen
- Bean counter
- Beef and reef
- Beer goggles
- Below the salt
- Binge drinking
- Blue-plate special
- Booze cruise
- Bread always falls buttered side down
- Bring home the bacon
- Bubble and squeak
- Bun in the oven
- Butter wouldn't melt in his mouth
- Caesar Salad
- Chew the cud
- Chow down
- Club sandwich
- Cordon bleu
- Curry favour
- Cut the mustard
- Dog's breakfast
- Dog's dinner
- Don't try to teach your Grandma to suck eggs
- Drink like a fish
- Dutch courage
- Eat drink and be merry
- Eat humble pie
- Eat my hat
- Egg on
- Feeding frenzy
- Fine words butter no parsnips
- Finger lickin good
- Get the pip
- Half a loaf is better than no bread
- Hard cheese
- Honey catches more flies than vinegar
- In a pickle
- It is meat and drink to me
- Jam tomorrow
- Know which side your bread is buttered
- Lager frenzy
- Let them eat cake
- Life's not all beer and skittles
- Man does not live by bread alone
- Meat and drink
- Meat and two veg.
- Mickey Finn
- Milk of human kindness
- Montezuma's Revenge
- Mouth-watering
- Movable feast
- My cup of tea
- My salad days
- No more cakes and ale?
- Not for all the tea in China
- On the wagon
- One for the road
- One man's meat is another man's poison
- One sandwich short of a picnic
- One over the eight
- Over-egg the pudding
- Pears for your heirs
- Pick 'n' mix
- Pie in the sky
- Piping hot
- Plates of meat
- Play gooseberry
- Pork pies
- Praying at the porcelain altar
- Quicker than lager turns to p***
- Rabbit and pork
- Raspberry tart
- Rat arsed
- Revenge is a dish best served cold
- Roasted to a turn
- Rosie Lea
- Salad days
- Save one's bacon
- Say cheese
- Selling like hot cakes
- Shut your cake-hole
- Sour grapes
- Spill the beans
- Square meal
- Surf and turf
- Take the cake
- Take the gilt off the gingerbread
- Take with a pinch of salt
- Take potluck
- Tea leaf
- Technicolor yawn
- The bread of life
- The hair of the dog that bit you
- The proof of the pudding is in the eating
- The toast of the town
- Three sheets to the wind
- Toffee-nosed
- Whet your appetite
- Why does bread always fall butter side down?
- Worse for wear
- Worth one's salt
- You are what you eat
- You can't have your cake and eat it too
- You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs
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