an apple a day »
Healthy eating and living using traditional temperate-zone fresh foods.
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beat up »
To give a severe beating to.
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beat up »
To get something done, derived from the idea of beating for game.
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blimp out »
To become fat or fatter, especially as a result of excessive eating.
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break a sweat »
To start sweating.
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cheaters never prosper »
One does not gain from cheating.
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cook up »
To prepare a heroin dose by heating.
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dig in »
To begin eating.
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dish out »
On to a dish ready for eating.
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fair game »
A game that is fair, that does not involve cheating etc.
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feed a cold, starve a fever »
Eating more will cure the common cold, and eating less will cure a fever.1887, J. H. Whelan, "The Treatment of Colds.", The Practitioner, vol. 38, pg. 180:"Feed a cold, starve a fever." There is a deal of wisdom in the first part of this advice. A person with a catarrh should take an abundance of light nutritious food, and some light wine, but avoid spirits, and above all tobacco.1968, Katinka Loeser, The Archers at Home, publ. Atheneum, New York, pg. 60:I have a cold. 'Feed a cold, starve a fever.' You certainly know that.2009, Shelly Reuben, Tabula Rasa, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, ISBN 015101079X, pg. 60:They say feed a cold, starve a fever, but they don't tell you what to do when you got both, so I figured scrambled eggs, tea, and toast.
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fight off »
To succeed in defeating a challenge, or an attack.
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get it »
To "get what's coming to him/her"; to feel one's wrath; to receive punishment; to receive a retaliation; to receive a beating.
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go Dutch »
To pay for one's own food and bills, or split the cost, when eating at a restaurant or going out for entertainment.
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gunshy »
Fearing the consequences of repeating an act, especially after being reprimanded.
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