an apple a day »
Healthy eating and living using traditional temperate-zone fresh foods.
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blow chunks »
To vomit chunks of undigested food.
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breakfast of champions »
An ironic appellation for beer, junk food, or other foods implied to be unhealthy.
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catmeat »
Catfood consisting of meat.
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chicken feed »
Food given to poultry.
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chopped liver »
A Jewish food made by frying liver and onions in schmaltz.
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consume mass quantities »
To eat or drink abundant amounts of food or beverage.
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dish up »
To serve cooked food.
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eat one's own dog food »
To test the beta programs that are in the test phase on one's own computers; to dogfood.
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eat one's own dog food »
To use or consume the economic goods or services that oneself is producing; to be part of a closed household economy.
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eat someone out of house and home »
To consume such a portion of one's store of food that little is left for the owner.
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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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food chain »
A hierarchy.
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food chain »
The feeding relationships between species in a biotic community.
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full English »
A cooked breakfast consisting of bacon and eggs, and other foods.
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go down the wrong way »
To swallow food or drink so that it goes down the wrong tube in one's throat and makes one cough or for a short period lose one's breath or choke.
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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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gulp down »
To eat very quickly without chewing the food properly.
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have eyes bigger than one's belly »
To take more food on one's plate than one can eat; to be greedy.
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have eyes bigger than one's stomach »
To take more food on one's plate than one can eat; to be greedy.
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hind tit »
An inferior source of food or other resources.
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hunger is a good sauce »
(dated) Being hungry makes one less concerned about the taste of one's food.1854, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman, Punch, Vol. XXVI, Punch Publications Ltd., page 74:His bread and cheese were somewhat dry, to be sure; his ale had become flat, and considerably warmer than was desirable; but hunger is a good sauce, and thirst is not particular.
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hunger is the best sauce »
Being hungry makes one less concerned about the taste of one's food.
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meal ticket »
A ticket or voucher that can be exchanged for food.
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meals on wheels »
Food delivered to the homes of those unable to cook for themselves.
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nose test »
An inspection of an object using the sense of smell, as for freshness of food.
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pickle »
The brine used for preserving food.
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put by »
To preserve food by canning, freezing, drying, etc.
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roach coach »
Whimsically, a catering or food truck.
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smell test »
An inspection of an object using the sense of smell, as for freshness of food.
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standard fare »
Menu items or dining options which are regularly available in a restaurant or other place where food is served.
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suck hind tit »
To feed from an inferior source of food.
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sweet tooth »
A liking for foods that are sweet; a weakness for sweets.
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warm up »
To reheat food.
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whistle walk »
The path slaves took to deliver food from the kitchen building of a plantation to the main dining room. Slaves were expected to whistle during this walk in order to assure their masters that they were not eating the food.
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