1. Too many cooks spoil the broth.
2. You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs.
3. The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
4. Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.
5. Eat at pleasure, drink with measure.
6. Every cook praises his own broth.
7. A watched pot never boils.
8. It's no use crying over spilt milk.
9. Great boast, small roast.
10. Hope is a good breakfast, but a bad supper.
24. Memorize the following idioms and idiomatic phrases and use them in a natural context. First make sure that you know what they mean:
1) to eat like wolf;
2) to eat somebody out of the house;
3) to be in one’s plate;
4) to fill up the cup;
5) to make two bites of a cherry;
6) to make an omelette without breaking eggs;
7) all sugar and honey;
8) to use a steam-hammer to crack nuts;
9) to be on a drink;
10) to bring the water to somebody’s mouth;
11) to stew in one’s own juice;
12) land flowing with milk and honey;
13) a sweet tooth;
14) to cut the mustard;
15) the hard stuff;
16) a stand-up meal;
17) to be of the same meal;
18) small potatoes;
19) what’s cooking?
20) A slice of the pi (a share of cake).