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In a pickle

in trouble / a mess

Bread and butter

the necessities

Doesn't cut the mustard

doesn't meet the required standard

to egg someone on

to urge someone to do something foolish

To take something with a pinch of salt

to accept that piece of information is probably exaggerated

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

Food for thought

worth considering

The apple of my eye

the person I adore

Like two peas in a pod

very similar

Not my cup of tea

not the type of things I usually enjoy

Big cheese

an important person

To bring home the bacon

to earn the income

To butter someone up

to flatter someone in the hopes of receiving special treatment

In a nutshell

simply put

To be handed something on a (silver) platter

to acquire something easily, usually without any effort on the receiver's part

To spill the beans

to reveal (usually secret) information

To eat humble pie

to apologise and accept humiliation

A smart cookie

a clever person

A hard nut to crack

a difficult person to understand / a difficult problem to solve

Like chalk and cheese

opposites

The cream of the crop

the best

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.

A bad apple / egg

a bad influence / someone who brings trouble

A couch potato

an idle person

To have a bun in the oven

to be pregnant

Gone pear-shaped

gone unexpectedly wrong

To go bananas / go nuts

to lose control as a result of being extremely excited / annoyed

Selling like hot cakes

Selling quickly and in large quantities

A piece of cake

easy

To cry over spilt milk

to get upset over something that has already happened and cannot be changed