- All chiefs and no Indians
- all bosses and no workers
- Before you could say Jack Robinson
- happening very fast
- Chinese take-away
- a Chinese meal bought to be eaten out
- Danish pastry
- a kind of cake
- Doubting Thomas
- a person who refuses to believe something until they see full proof
- English breakfast
- a large morning meal usually consisting of bacon, eggs, baked beans (or fried tomatoes), toast with jam or marmalade and tea or coffee
- Every Tom, Dick and Harry
- an ordinary person
- French window
- a pair of glass doors leading to a garden
- French bread
- bread in long thin crusty loaves
- French fries
- long thin pieces of potato fried in oil
- French dressing
- a thin sauce made of oil, vinegar and spices which you put on salads
- French beans
- a kind of long green beans
- French leave
- leaving a place without asking permission
- Go Dutch
- share the cost
- Herculean task (effort)
- one that requires enormous strength
- Indian summer
- a period of warm weather in autumn
- I'm all right Jack
- a selfish attitude of only caring for oneself
- Keep up with the Joneses
-try to have the same possessions as friends and neighbours
- Rob Peter to pay Paul
- borrow money from somebody in order to settle a debt
- Scot free
- without being punished
- Scotch egg
- a hard boiled egg covered with sausage meat and fried in oil
- Scotch broth
- a thick soup made mainly with beef or lamb and vegetables
- Scotch on the rocks
- whisky with ice
- Smart Alec
- a very conceited person who thinks they know everything
- Spanish omelette
- a thick omelette which includes potatoes
- Tartar
- a fierce, bad-tempered person, who is in a position of authority
- Turkish delight
- a jelly-like sweet that is covered with powdered sugar or chocolate
- Turkish coffee
- very strong black coffee drunk in very small cups
- Turkish bath
- a type of bath in which you sit in a very hot steamy room, then wash, have a massage and finally swim or shower in very cold water
- Ukrainian borsch
- beetroot soup with plenty of vegetables
- Utopian scheme
- a plan that is foolish or impractical
- Welsh rarebit
(rabbit) - a savoury food made by putting cheese and spices (sometimes also milk and flour) on some bread and heating it so that the cheese melts
- Work like a Trojan
- work very hard
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