Food

Food

1. Eat up

   • To finish all your meal.
     • ''Eat up your breakfast now or you'll be late for school.''

2. Polish off

   • To finish food quickly.
     • ''He polished off a plateful of lentils in next to no time.''

3. Come down

   • To decrease in level or amount.

4. Dig in

   • To start eating.
     • ''Dig in before your food gets cold!''

5. Go off

   • When food is not good to be eaten anymore.
     • ''I forgot to freeze this meat and now it has gone off.''

6. Live on

   • To have a specific food as the only or main.
     • ''I could live on pasta. I love it.''

7. Whip up

   • To prepare a meal very quicly.
     • “Toni loves cooking so every day he whips up a delicious supper for his wife and kids”

8. Eat out/in

   • To eat outside you home.
     • “When I don’t want to cook, my boyfriend and I eat out at a restaurant”

9. Bolt down

   • To eat food very quicly.
     • “Susan only has 15 minutes to eat lunch so she bolts it down really fast”

10. Fry up

    • The act of frying a meal.
      • “On Sundays my Mum always prepares a fry up – eggs, bacon, beans and toast. Yum!”

11. Pig out/on

    • To eat a lot of food.
      • “Jamie had been on a diet all week, so during the weekend he pigged out on fast food”

12. Warm up

    • To make warm someone or something.
      • “If you’re hungry, warm up the leftovers in the microwave”

13. Order in

    • To order food at a restaurant.
      • ''I don’t feel like cooking. Shall we order in some Chinese food?''

14. Thaw out

    • To take food out of the freezer so that we can cook it.
      • ''I think I'll thaw out some fish for dinner.''

15. Knock back

    • To drink (an alcoholic drink) quickly.
      • “When John got to the bar he inmediately asked for a big whiskey and knocked it back”

16. Pick at

    • To unwillingly eat only a small amount of food.
      • ''Is something wrong with you? You've been picking at your food for half an hour.''

17. Cut out

    • To form or shape by cutting. To stop doing something.
      • “My Dad has very high cholesterol, so he has cut out eggs and dairy from his diet”

18. Chop up

    • To cut into pieces.
      • “If you want to help me, please chop these vegetables for the stew up”

19. Cut down on

    • To decrease the amount of food that you eat.
      • ''The doctor told me to cut down on salt.''

20. Snack on

    • To eat a small amount of it between meals.
      • ''I'm a bit hungry. I'll snack on some cheese or biscuits.''

21. Pick up

    • Going somewhere to get a person or thing that you will then take to another place.
      • “There’s nothing in the fridge so I will pick some sandwiches up from the shop”

22. Cut back

    • To do less of something.
      • “You eat too much salt, you should cut back on salty foods”

23. Slim down

    • A nicer way to say to lose weight.
      • ''She’s slimmed down a lot since last year.''

24. Get into shape

    • To lose weight and look good.
      • '' I get in shape to look healthier. ''

25. Crash diet

    • Very severe diet.
      • ''He is ordered to go on a crash diet.''

26. Comform eat

    • To eat unhealthy food that makes you feel better.
      • ''I don't comfort-eat, I just see food as fuel.''

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