與食物有關的習慣用語

Idioms from Food

The used car I bought for three hundred dollars was a lemon. My friends said I was nuts to believe the baloney the seller gave. The seller said that the car was like new, with only ten thousand miles on it. She called it reliable transportation at a very low price. She said she was really selling it for peanuts.

Starting the engine of the car was a piece of cake. I just turned the key – no problem. However, soon I was in a pickle: the brakes didn’t work! The owner of the Cadillac I hit went bananas when he saw the damage to the front of his car. He started shouting at me and wouldn’t stop. Now I have to pay him two thousand dollars to repair his car. But my friend Nina was a peach. She took my car to the garbage dump so that I didn’t have to see it again.


In a pickle -----------------in trouble
A lemon ------------------ something that does not work, usually an electrical appliance or mechanical item.
To cream someone -------- to totally beat someone in a game
Peanuts ------------------ a very small amount of money
Baloney ------------------ nonsense
Fishy -------------------- suspicious, not right or honest
Nuts --------------------- very crazy, very upset
To go bananas ------------ to go crazy
A peach ------------------ a very nice person
The apple of one’s eye ---- someone’s favorite person