Food Idioms
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🍋A lemon _/US, informal/_
📝Meaning: something that you buy which turns out to have problems - it is defective / it doesn't work well.
✏️Examples:
⚫That second-hand car I bought was a real lemon. It broke down a week after I bought it.
⚫Only one of his inventions turned out to be a lemon.
🍞Bread and butter _/noun/_
💡 Synonym: livelihood
📝Meaning: which are bread and butter are the basic things you need to survive e.g. food and shelter. It is also used to describe the job or activity that provides you with the money you need to live.
✏️Examples:
⚫Teaching is my bread and butter.
⚫Gardening is my bread and butter right now.
🍟Cheap as chips _/British, Informal/_
📝Meaning: When something is as cheap as chips it is very cheap.
✏️Examples:
⚫I didn't pay much for these shoes. In fact, they were as cheap as chips.
⚫Oh, you could definitely afford an apartment in my building—the rent is cheap as chips.
