食物篇 1
apple 1
apple-pie 1
as apple pie 2
the apple of one s eye 2
upset sb. s applecart 3
bacon 5
bring home the bacon 5
save bacon 6
beef to the heels 7
beef about 7
beef 7
beef up 8
put beef into 9
bread 11
bread and butter 11
bread-and-butter 11
bread and scrape 12
break bread 13
bread buttered on both sides 13
cast one s bread on the waters 14
daily bread 14
eat the bread of 15
earn one s bread 15
know which side one s bread is buttered on 16
out of bread 17
take the bread out of sb. s mouth 17
the best thing since sliced bread 18
butter 20
butter up 20
butter would not melt in one s mouth 21
cake 23
a piece of cake 23
a slice of the cake 24
cakes and ale 24
cannot have one s cake and eat it 25
go like hot cakes 26
take the cake 26
candy 28
take a candy from a baby 28
would take a candy from a baby 29
cheese 31
chalk and cheese 31
cheeseparing 32
cheesed off 32
hard cheese 33
make the cheese more binding 33
coffee-and-cake job 35
coffee cooler 35
coffee 35
cream 38
cream of the crop 38
cream off 39
cream up 39
the cream of 40
egg 42
as sure as eggs is eggs 42
bring one s eggs to a bad market 43
crush in the egg 43
egg on one s face 44
good egg 45
from the egg to the apple 45
have all one s eggs in one basket 46
lay an egg 46
walk on eggs 47
food 49
food for thought 49
off one s food 50
ham 52
ham it up 52
ham up 53
hamstring 53
ham of 54
a honey 56
honey 56
honey-tongued 57
jam 59
have jam on it 59
jam tomorrow 60
like jam on it 60
real jam 61
juice 63
step on the juice 63
stew in one s own juice 63
be meat for sb. s master 66
cry roast meat 66
meat 66
jump on sb. s meat 67
meat and potatoes 68
meat ax 68
milk 70
bring sb. to his milk 70
cry over spilt milk 71
milk-and-water 71
milk for babies 72
milk of human kindness 72
mutton 74
be sb. s muttons 74
dead as mutton 74
eat mutton cold 75
mutton dressed as lamb 76
resume one s muttons 76
return to one s muttons 77
stick to one s muttons 77
onion 79
know one s onion 79
off one s onion 79
peach 81
a peach of 81
peaches and cream 81
be pie at 83
as...as pie 83
pie 83
cut a pie 84
eat humble pie 85
have a finger in the pie 85
salt 87
eat salt with sb. 87
not made of salt 88
put salt on the tail of 88
rub salt in sb. s wound 89
the salt of the earth 89
true to one s salt 90
worth one s salt 91
with a grain of salt 91
have the sauce 93
sauce 93
hit the sauce 94
poor man s sauce 94
serve with the same sauce 95
soup 97
from soup to nuts 97
in the soup 97
soup up 98
sugar 100
sugar the pill 100
sugarcoat 101
sugar up 101
tea 103
cup of tea 103
for all the tea in China 104
take tea with sb. 104
tea and sympathy 105
植物篇 107
bean 107
a row of beans 107
full of beans 108
haven t a bean 108
know one s beans 109
isn s worth a bean 109
not a bean 110
spill the beans 110
bud 113
in the bud 113
nip sth.in the bud 114
bush 115
beat about the bush 115
beat the bushes 116
go bush 116
carry corn 118
admit the corn 118
corn 118
corn off the cob 119
eat one s corn in the blade 120
cotton 122
cotton on 122
cottonpicking 123
cotton to 123
in tall cotton 124
keep in cotton wool 124
crop 126
a crop of 126
stick in sb. s crop 127
crop out 127
daisy 129
as fresh as a daisy 129
daisy chain of 129
push up daisies 130
flower 132
in full flower 132
in the flower of 133
the flower of sth. 133
fruit 135
(an action)bear fruit 135
forbidden fruit 136
first fruits 136
fruit of the body 137
grass 139
between grass and hey 139
cut the grass under sb. s feet 140
go to grass 140
grass roots 141
let the grass grow under one s feet 141
put sb. to grass 142
leaf 144
leaves without figs 144
take a leaf from sb. s book 144
turn over a new leaf 145
lilies and roses 147
gild the lily 147
lily 147
nut 149
a hard nut 149
do one s nut 150
for nuts 150
nut out 151
nuts and bolts 151
off one s nuts 152
screw the nut 152
feel one s oats 154
know one s oats 154
oat 154
off one s oats 155
sow one s wild oats 155
reed 157
lean on a reed 157
root 159
at root 159
pull up one s roots 160
put down roots 160
root and branch 161
strike at the root 161
take root 162
a bed of roses 164
rose 164
come up roses 165
gather roses 165
under the rose 166
seed 168
be seeded 168
go to seed 168
raise up seed 169
the seeds of sth. 169
stem 171
from stem to stem 171
stem from 171
catch at a straw 173
straw 173
a straw in the wind 173
do not care a straw 174
draw a straw 174
get the short straw 175
make bricks without straw 175
the last straw 176
thorn 178
a thorn in sb. s flesh 178
sit on thorns 179
tree 181
at the top of the tree 181
grow on trees 182
bark up the wrong tree 182
out of one s tree 183
up a gum tree 183
vine 185
dwell under one s vine and fig tree 185
wither on the vine 186
wood 188
come out of the woodwork 188
crawl into the woodwork 189
have the wood on 189
in the green wood 190
out of the wood 190
sth.nasty in the woodshed 191
saw wood 192
take sb.into the woodshed 192
take to the woods 193
物品篇 195
ball 195
ball up 195
carry the ball 196
catch the ball before the bounce 196
have a ball 197
have on the ball 197
keep one s eyes on the ball 198
keep the ball rolling 198
on the ball 199
take up the ball 200
run with the ball 200
the ball is in sb. s court 201
throw the ball to sb. 201
bed 203
be brought to bed 203
bed and board 204
keep one s bed 204
bench 206
on the bench 206
be brought before the bench 206
an open book 209
book 209
a closed book 209
bring sb.to book 210
by the book 210
close the books 211
hit the books 212
in sb. s book 212
in sb. s black books 213
make a book 213
boot 215
give sb.the boot 215
like old boots 216
lick sb. s boots 216
put the boots in 217
box 219
box in 219
box off 220
box-office 220
in a box 221
in the same box 221
in the wrong box 222
out of the box 222
at the first brush 224
tarred with the same brush 224
brush 224
cap 226
put a cap on 226
put on one s thinking cap 226
set one s cap 227
coat 229
a hole in sb. s coat 229
turn one s coat 230
chair 232
be in the chair 232
chairborne 232
take the chair 233
dash the cup from sb. s lips 235
cup 235
between cup and lip 235
drain the cup of 236
drink the cup of 237
door 239
at sb. s door 239
open the door 240
slam the door in sb. s face 240
hammer 242
between hammer and anvil 242
hammer and tongs 243
drop the hammer 243
hammer awayn at 244
hammer out 244
under the hammer 245
up to the hammer 245
hat 247
black as my hat 247
hang up one s hat 248
old hat 248
out of a hat 249
under one s hat 249
before the ink is dry 251
ink in 251
ink 251
sling ink 252
lid 254
blow one s lid 254
keep the lid on 255
put a lid on 255
put the lid on 256
take the lid off 256
mirror 258
with mirrors 258
get the needle 260
needle 260
a needle in a haystack 261
paper 263
peddle one s papers 263
set a paper 264
pen 266
drive a pen 266
put pen to paper 266
pillow 268
consult with one s pillow 268
sew pillows under people s elbows 269
plate 271
on a plate 271
on one s plate 272
another pair of shoes 274
in sb. s shoes 274
shoe 274
where the shoe pinches 275
table 277
on the table 277
turn the tables 278
under the table 278
thread 280
break the thread 280
hang by a thread 281
lose the thread 281
go on wheels 283
wheel 283
at the wheel 283
grease the wheels 284
have wheels in head 285
spin one s wheels 285
take the wheel 286
the man at the wheel 286
wheel and deal 287
wheels within wheels 287
window 289
fly out of the window 289
window dressing 290