take in
To receive.
Food & eating · Ăn uống 746
From street food to feasts — how Vietnamese and English talk about eating.
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take out
to remove or eliminate someone or something
the proof of the pudding is in the eating
Results are more important than plans or appearances
the thing
The style, the proper proportion. Application varied. A good appearance, a decent dinner, or a fair bottle of wine, is said to be "the THING," sometimes "the correct THING."
three hots and a cot
Prison.
to bite
To over-reach, or impose; also to steal.--Cant.--Biting was once esteemed a kind of wit, similar to the humbug. An instance of it is given in the Spectator: A man under sentence of death having sold his body to a surgeon rather below the market price, on receiving the money, cried, A bite! I am to be hanged in chains.--To bite the roger; to steal a portmanteau. To bite the wiper, to steal a handkerchief. To bite on the bridle; to be pinched or reduced to difficulties.
to cog
To cheat with dice; also to coax or wheedle, To cog a die; to conceal or secure a die. To cog a dinner; to wheedle one out of a dinner.
to grease
To bribe. To grease a man in the fist; to bribe him. To grease a fat sow in the a-se; to give to a rich man. Greasy chin; a treat given to parish officers in part of commutation for a bastard: called also, Eating a child.
to heave
To rob. To heave a case; to rob a house. To heave a bough; to rob a booth. CANT.
to roast
To arrest. I'll roast the dab; I'll arrest the rascal.--Also to jeer, ridicule, or banter. He stood the roast; he was the butt.--Roast meat clothes; Sunday or holiday-clothes. To cry roast meat; to boast of one's situation. To rule the roast; to be master or paramount.
to smoke
To observe, to suspect.
to snilch
To eye, or look at any thing attentively: the cull snilches. CANT.
to wobble
To boil. Pot wobbler; one who boils a pot.
to yam
To eat or stuff heartily.
tommy o’rann
Scran,—vulgar term for food.
tommy tripe
To pipe; that is, to observe. "Tommy Tripe his plates of meat."
trencher man
A stout trencher man; one who has a good appetite, or, as the term is, plays a good knife and fork.
use one's loaf
To think.
what's cooking
What is happening or being planned
what's eating
something is bothering or troubling someone
what's eating you
something is annoying or troubling you
wine and dine
to entertain someone with good food and drink
with a grain of salt
to be skeptical or cautious
with and without
Words by themselves, supposed to denote the existence or non-existence of sugar in grog. Generally "warm WITH" and "cold WITHOUT."
word of mouth
Information or recommendation spread by people talking to each other
you are what you eat
Your health and character are influenced by your diet