• the salt of the earth = a very good and honest person.
  Jack is the salt of the earth.
• not my cup of tea = something that you don't like much.
  Rock isn't my cup of tea. I prefer jazz.
• a butterfingers = somebody who often drops things.
  Sally is so clumsy, she's really a butterfingers!
• a piece of cake = something very easy.
  Learning English is a piece of cake!
• full of beans = full of energy.
  Sheila is full of beans this morning!
• nuts / bananas = crazy.
  I'm going to go nuts/bananas if I don't get a new job soon.
• peanuts = a very small amount of money.
  Hotel workers usually get paid peanuts.
• the cream of something = the best things or people from a group.
  Our university only takes the cream of applicants.
• the cream of the crop = the best of all.
  The students at this university are the cream of the crop.
• as cool as a cucumber = relaxed, calm.
  The driver was as cool as a cucumber when the police stopped him.
• a lemon = a silly person.
  Thomas behaved like a real lemon at the party last night.
• sour grapes = something important that somebody pretends that has no value.
  He says he doesn't want to marry her, but that's just sour grapes.
• sour-faced = showing dislike for something or somebody.
  Tim's girlfriend was sour-faced when she saw him talking to another girl.

We thank Francis Dixon-Clarke (from Sao Paulo, Brazil) for his contribution.

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