Cooking & eating idioms

When reading through a list of idioms I can’t keep myself from chuckling. Here’s a list cooking- or eating- related idioms with no notes regarding definitions or origins. I have hopes it will inspire a chuckle or two:

spill the beans
not worth a hill of beans
full of beans
to not know beans
bean counter
too many cooks spoil the broth
out of the frying pan & into the fire
cry over spilt milk
not one’s cup of tea
done to a T
cook up a storm
cook to perfection
burn to a crisp
half baked
grist for the mill
the pot calling the kettle black 
to bite off more than one can chew
to bite that hand that feeds one
eat crow
eat dirt
eat humble pie
eat like a bird
eat like a horse
eat high on the hog 
eat one’s hat 
eat one’s heart out 
eat one’s words 
easy as pie
that takes the cake
a piece of cake
icing on the cake
have one’s cake & eat it too


Dear readers – any chuckling? If so, what idiom(s) got you going?


My thanks go out to this week’s sources: the OED, Etymonline, & The Idiom Connection

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