Food Idioms

EmilyGL

Please don't spill the bottle in this photo! There are many food idioms in English, and one common one is: It's no good crying over spilt milk.

It's no use crying over spilt milk
means exactly the same.
You may also see "spilt" spelled as "spilled", with the same meaning.

The idea behind this is that once something is done, it is done, and even if you want to, you cannot go back and change it! So there is no point in regretting it.
 
Bread and butter is a phrase meaning your livelihood, something which gives you basic income.
"I depend on mending clothes for my bread and butter." "He will have to look somewhere else for his bread and butter."
It can also mean a basic or ordinary or everyday part of something: "These grammar exercises are the bread and butter of the book." "We do these English exercises every day; they are our bread and butter."
 
You can also talk about earning a crust. The crust is the hard outside of a loaf of bread, and, as with bread and butter, bread is such a staple food that this phrase means making enough money to live on, earning your livelihood somehow, even with work you don't want to do.
 
 

 By Salicyna - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=94520136
Picture of milk: By Unisouth - Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3899869
 
For more specific and idiomatic phrases to use in certain situations, why not see my functions lesson. I look forward to seeing you.
Emily.
 
 

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