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How interesting that the French use food for superlatives. Do we have anything like that in English? It feels weird to me, so I'm guessing no.

• bane 13y ago
  Not all that common, but sometimes. "He's quite the meat head." "He's an old salt." "Her personality was rather spicy." "He's a chicken." "Don't be a fruit." "Talking to her is like talking to a vegetable." "She's such a potato." "He's pretty corny around executives." "That guy is a rotten egg." "Her mind is like a pretzel." "She was such a cute pumpkin." "He's such a pig." "He's nuts." "What a cow."
  • gruseom 13y ago
    Those aren't superlatives. We'd need to find something like "wicked" or "sick", but from food. The ones I can think of all come from religion or sex.
    • bane 13y ago
      Good point. I can't think of any example off hand.
  • Flenser 13y ago
    "any more would be gravy" (although that's from old French, like a lot of English food words)