have someone on toast
To have a great advantage over someone
Food & eating · Ăn uống 746
From street food to feasts — how Vietnamese and English talk about eating.
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hearty choak
He will have a hearty choak and caper sauce for breakfast; i.e. he will be hanged.
herbs and spices
A mixture of plant-based seasonings
high eating
To eat skylarks in a garret.
hot pot
Ale and brandy made hot.
humble pie
to apologize or admit fault, often in a humiliating way
hunger and thirst
Strong desire or craving
hunger sauce
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
hungry as a hog
Very hungry
kettle of fish
A complicated or awkward situation
kitchen physic
Food, good meat roasted or boiled. A little kitchen physic will set him up; he has more need of a cook than a doctor.
let rip
To fart.
long stomach
A voracious appetite.
make a meal of
To make something more difficult or complicated than necessary
meat and potatoes
the basic or fundamental parts of something
mince pie
An eye.
mutton chops
A sheep’s-head. A man who has dined off sheep’s-head dignifies his meal by calling it MUTTON CHOPS (chaps).
neck beef
A synonym for coarseness. "As coarse as neck ends of beef."
nice as pie
Very nice.
nose in the manger
TO PUT ONE’S, to sit down to eat. To "put on the nose-bag" is to eat hurriedly, or to eat while continuing at work.
now you're cooking
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
on a full stomach
feeling content and satisfied
on a plate
Given or presented very easily
on the table
Available for discussion or consideration
out to lunch
completely wrong or mistaken
peck at
To nag
plates of meat
The feet.
polish off
to finish or complete something quickly
pots and pans
A fixed-order word pair (irreversible binomial); full definition pending editorial review.
pudding time
In good time, or at the beginning of a meal: pudding formerly making the first dish. To give the crows a pudding; to die. You must eat some cold pudding, to settle your love.
pussy eating
cunnilingus
put food on the table
To earn a living and provide for one's family
put that in your pipe and smoke it
Accept that fact or decision
ranting and raving
Talking loudly and angrily about something
red herring
A soldier.
red lane
The throat.
roast and boiled
A nick name for the Life Guards, who are mostly substantial house-keepers; and eat daily of roast and boiled.
rule the roast
To be at the head of affairs, to be "cock of the walk."
rum booze
Wine, or any other good liquor. Rum boozing welts; bunches of grapes. CANT.
salt and pepper
experienced and youthful people together
salt and vinegar
a flavoring combination
scotch warming pan
A wench; also a fart.
serve up
to provide or offer something
short commons
Short allowance of food. See COMMONS.
size of ale
Half a pint. Size of bread and cheese; a certain quantity. Sizings: Cambridge term for the college allowance from the buttery, called at Oxford battles.
slush bucket
A foul feeder, one that eats much greasy food.
snack down on
To eat.
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. (Francis Bacon)
English proverb; full definition pending editorial review.
someone's goose is cooked
Someone's situation is hopeless or their plans are ruined.
soup's on
Dinner is ready to be served
spitalfields’ breakfast
At the East-end of London this is understood as consisting of a tight necktie and a short pipe. Amongst workmen it is usual to tighten the apron string when no dinner is at hand. Hunters and trappers always take in their belts when supplies are short. "An Irishman’s dinner" is a low East-end term, and means a smoke and a visit to the urinal. Sometimes the phrase is, "I’ll go out and count the railings," i.e., the park or area railings, mental instead of maxillary exercise.
stay hungry
Remain motivated and ambitious
stir-up sunday
The Sunday next before Advent, the collect for that day commencing with the words, "Stir up." Schoolboys, growing excited at the prospect of the vacation, irreverently commemorate it by stirring up—pushing and poking each other. "Crib-crust Monday" and "tug-button Tuesday" are distinguished by similar tricks; while on "pay-off Wednesday" they retaliate small grudges in a playful facetious way.
stomach worm
The stomach worm gnaws; I am hungry.
sugar and spice
Comprising both pleasant and unpleasant aspects
sugar and spice and everything nice
Used to describe something or someone considered delightful and pleasant
sugar sops
Toasted bread soked in ale, sweetened with sugar, and grated nutmeg: it is eaten with cheese.
sweet and sour
Having both pleasant and unpleasant aspects
tables and chairs
Basic or essential items
take bread and salt
To accept hospitality or shelter from someone