Here is a list of food-related idioms.<\/p>\n
Eat dirt<\/strong><\/p>\n To eat dirt is to accept bad treatment without complaining.<\/p>\n He was such a bad boss that he would bully his employees and make them eat dirt.<\/p>\n Eat humble pie<\/strong><\/p>\n To eat humble pie is to admit your mistake and apologize<\/p>\n I had to eat humble pie when he proved that I was wrong.<\/p>\n Eat like a pig<\/strong><\/p>\n Used to refer to a person who has bad table manners<\/p>\n John has terrible table manners. He eats like a pig.<\/p>\n Eat one\u2019s words<\/strong><\/p>\n To eat one\u2019s words is to take back something you have said<\/p>\n I told him that I was a better singer than him but had to eat my words when he proved me wrong.<\/p>\n To want someone’s head on a platter<\/strong><\/p>\n To be very angry with someone<\/p>\n She was so angry with her biographer that she wanted his head on a platter.<\/p>\n Suck up<\/strong><\/p>\n To suck up to somebody is to try to gain favour by being extra nice to people in power<\/p>\n I don\u2019t quite like her. She is always sucking up to the rich and the famous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here is a list of food-related idioms. Eat dirt To eat dirt is to accept bad treatment without complaining. He was such a bad boss that he would bully his employees and make them...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[308],"class_list":["post-1909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idioms","tag-common-idioms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1910,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909\/revisions\/1910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}