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FOOD AND DRINK, the cooked meal eaten in the evening(UK) - Coggle Diagram

- - - - rice paddies (= rice fields)
      - brown rice (= without its outer layer removed)
    - - TEA the dried leaves of the tea bush, a hot
        
        not somebody’s cup of tea
        
        not for all the tea in China
        (old-fashioned) not even for a great reward
        
        IDIOM
    - - IDIOM
        
        cash in your chips to die
        
        a chip off the old block : a person who is very similar to their mother or father in the way that they look or behave
        
        have had your chips (British English, informal) to be in a situation in which you are certain to be defeated or killed
        
        when the chips are down used to refer to a difficult situation in which you are forced to decide what is important to you
      - a thin round slice of potato that is fried until hard then dried and eaten cold. Chips are sold in bags and are made to taste of many different foods.
      - a small piece/the place from which a small piece of wood, glass, etc. has broken from an object
      - microchip
        computer/graphics/memory chips
      - a small flat piece of plastic used to represent a particular amount of money in some types of gambling
    - - dead meat in serious troubleI
      - easy meat a person who seems easy to defeat or cheat
      - meat and drink to somebody something that somebody enjoys very much / something that is a normal thing to deal with for somebody
      - one man’s meat is another man’s poison used to say that different people like different things
      - IDIOM
    - - IDIOM
        
        take the bread out of somebody's mouth - to take away someone's job so that they are no longer able to earn enough money to live
        
        the best thing since sliced bread - you think it is extremely good, interesting, etc.
      - EX; a loaf/slice/piece of bread
        white/wheat/rye bread
      - money (slang)
    - - IDIOM
        
        a big fish (in a small pond) an important person (in a small community)
        
        a cold fish a person who seems unfriendly and without strong emotions
        
        be like shooting fish in a barrel used to emphasize how easy it is to do something
        
        drink like a fish to drink a lot of alcohol regularly
        
        a different kettle of fisha completely different situation or person from the one previously mentioned
        
        a fish out of water a person who feels uncomfortable because they are in an environment that is not familiar
        
        have bigger/other fish to fry to have more important or more interesting things to do
        
        neither fish nor fowl neither one thing nor another
        
        there are plenty more fish in the sea
      - shoals (= groups) of fish
    - - if you use the carrot and stick approach, you persuade somebody to try harder by offering them a reward if they do, or a punishment if they do not