Is Anyone Hungry?

Holidays are closely coming to an end, and unfortunately the delicious food that we prepared for the holidays is probably also running out of stock. But let us take this opportunity to teach you some food idioms and enrich your English language knowledge. Bon Apetit!

1. Too many cooks spoil the broth

Having too many people working on the same thing may actually be bad

2. Spoon-feed someone

To spoon-feed someone means to help someone in ways that are more than what is needed. Spoon-feeding someone is helping a person way too much.

3. To put all one’s eggs in one basket

To place all of one’s resources like money in one place or in one kind of investment. This idiom can also mean to risk one’s resources by putting them all together.

4. Have One's Finger in Too Many Pies

It means to be involved in too many things that you cannot do any of them well

5. Rub salt into (someone's) wound

To try to make someone's misfortune even worse

6. Bite off more than one can chew

To try to eat or do more than you can manage

7. Born with a silver spoon in one's mouth

To be born in a wealthy family