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Idioms Quiz: Food 3
1. kill the goose that lays the golden egg
If people find something that makes them a lot of money, they often kill the goose that laid the golden egg because of
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2. put all your eggs in the one basket
His father told him not to put all his eggs in the one basket, so Arjuna
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3. take with a grain of salt | take with a pinch of salt
When your grandma tells stories about the past, you should take what she says with a grain of salt because
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4. talk turkey
Before we could talk turkey about the deal, we had to
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5. the cream of the crop
Martin was always told by his parents and teachers that he was the cream of the crop, so he thought he was
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6. the icing on the cake | the frosting on the cake
Winning a Nobel prize is the icing on the cake after
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7. the upper crust
Ralph wants people to think he's in the upper crust, so he
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8. upset the applecart
We'd planned to have our wedding in the local park, but the head of the council upset the applecart when he
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9. whet your appetite
If I have one little chocolate it'll whet my appetite, and
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10. You are what you eat.
My doctor said, "The most important thing to remember is that you are what you eat," and then told me to eat more
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