In a pickle
In trouble
In a brine jar
A piece of cake
Something very easy
A slice of cake
Bite off more than you can chew
To take on a task that is too hard
To physically bite too much food at once
Butter someone up
To physically butter someone
To be nice to someone to get something
Food for thought
Actual food to eat
Something to think about
Not worth a hill of beans
Not worth much
Not tasty
Take with a grain of salt
Add salt to food
Be skeptical about something
That's the cherry on top
A dessert topping
An extra thing that 's added
Go nuts
Eat nuts
Become crazy or excited
Too many cooks in the kitchen
A soup gets too salty when too many cooks are involved
Too many people doing something
Spill the beans
To spill a pot of beans on the floor
To reveal a secret
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree
Apples grow underneath trees
Children are like their parents
Couch potato
A potato on a couch
A lazy person
Spice things up
Add spices to food
Make something more exciting
Cool as a cucumber
Very calm
Literally cool as a cucumber
Spill the tea
drinking tea
gossiping
Eat humble pie
Admit you were wrong
Eat a pie made of humble ingredients
The icing on the cake
Something to make it even better
The frosting that goes on baked goods