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You can't have your cake and eat it too
You can't have something both ways / you can't have the best of both worlds / you can't have the two mutually exclusive things you desire at once
To take something with a pinch of salt
to accept that piece of information is probably exaggerated
To spill the beans
to reveal (usually secret) information
To have a bun in the oven
to be pregnant
To go bananas / go nuts
to lose control as a result of being extremely excited / annoyed
to egg someone on
to urge someone to do something foolish
To eat humble pie
to apologise and accept humiliation
To cry over spilt milk
to get upset over something that has already happened and cannot be changed
To butter someone up
to flatter someone in the hopes of receiving special treatment
To bring home the bacon
to earn the income
To be handed something on a (silver) platter
to acquire something easily, usually without any effort on the receiver's part
The icing on the cake
something positive that happens in an already very good situation, but sometimes, something quite bad that happens in an already very bad situation.
The cream of the crop
the best
The apple of my eye
the person I adore
Selling like hot cakes
Selling quickly and in large quantities
Not my cup of tea
not the type of things I usually enjoy
Like two peas in a pod
very similar
Like chalk and cheese
opposites
In a pickle
in trouble / a mess
In a nutshell
simply put
Gone pear-shaped
gone unexpectedly wrong
Food for thought
worth considering
Doesn't cut the mustard
doesn't meet the required standard
Bread and butter
the necessities
Big cheese
an important person
A smart cookie
a clever person
A piece of cake
easy
A hard nut to crack
a difficult person to understand / a difficult problem to solve
A couch potato
an idle person
A bad apple / egg
a bad influence / someone who brings trouble
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