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Food Slang Game

Line match: Connect the food-related idiom on the left to its defi niti on on the right

1. a piece of cake • • a. to admit that what you said was wrong

b. to make a diffi cult situati on even worse
2. apple of my eye • •
for someone

c. likely to be unsuccessful, destroyed or
3. hand-to-mouth • •
dead

d. the person who someone loves most
4. bear fruit • •
and is very proud of

e. to treat someone as badly as they have
5. eat your words • •
treated you

6. be in/ get into hot water f. to have successful results
6. be in/ get into hot water
e.g. He’s in hot water. • •

7. Be toast e.g. g. to stop yourself from saying something
You’re toast. • • that you would really like to say

8. bite your tongue • • h. something that is very easy to do

i. to be involved in something, oft en when
9. rub salt into the wound • •
your involvement is not wanted

10. hard cheese • • j. having only just enough money to live

k. used as a way of saying that you’re sorry
11. have a fi nger in the pie
11. have a fi nger in the pie • •
about something, usually ironically

12. give somebody a taste of their l. to be in or get into trouble
own medicine • •

24 Answer 1.h 2.d 3.j 4.f 5.a 6.l 7.c 8.g 9.b 10.k 11.i 12.e