{"id":920,"date":"2015-11-23T11:47:47","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T11:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=920"},"modified":"2015-11-23T11:47:47","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T11:47:47","slug":"food-related-idioms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/food-related-idioms\/","title":{"rendered":"Food related idioms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a list of <strong>food-related idioms<\/strong>. Each idiom is followed by its meaning or definition. Example sentences are also given.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eat dirt<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To eat dirt is to accept bad treatment without complaining.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My former boss was very bad. He would always make us eat dirt.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Eat humble pie<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To eat humble pie is to admit your mistake and apologize.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I had to eat humble pie when he proved that I was wrong.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Eat like a pig<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This expression is used to refer to people who lack table manners.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why do you eat like a pig? Don\u2019t you have any table manners?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Eat one\u2019s words<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To eat one\u2019s words is to take back something you have said<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I told him that I was a faster sprinter than him but I had to eat my words when he proved me wrong.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>To want someone&#8217;s head on a platter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To be very angry with someone<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She was so angry with her biographer that she wanted his head on a platter.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Suck up<\/h3>\n<p>To suck up to influential people is to try to gain favour by being extra nice to them.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I don\u2019t quite like Jane. She is always sucking up to the rich and the famous.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a list of food-related idioms. Each idiom is followed by its meaning or definition. Example sentences are also given. Eat dirt To eat dirt is to accept bad treatment without complaining. My&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[183],"class_list":["post-920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idioms","tag-food-idioms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":921,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions\/921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}