C2 · Mastery
Food Sayings
Danish idioms served from the kitchen: going agurk, treading in the spinach and living like the yolk in an egg.
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- Words & phrases
- 20
- Lessons
- 2
- Conversations
- 1
- Readings
- 1
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- to sell like hotcakes
- to mumble / speak indistinctly
- with a grain of salt
- a grumpy / sour person
- a tough guy / tough cookie
- to be full of years / old and content
- to live it up on / milk something
- to pull the chestnuts out of the fire
- neither fish nor fowl
- to live in the lap of luxury
- a sour remark / bit of grumbling
- to eat one's words
- to make one's mouth water
- a lot to take on, a daunting task
- to fob someone off with something
- to be full of energy / restless
- to shelve a matter
- the spice of life / what adds interest
- to be well-founded / have substance
- to crack a tough nut
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Food Idioms
- Lesson 2
Shopkeeper Gossip in Food Idioms
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