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Anaid99 Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary
Food metaphors of human beings- sausage, cookie, top banana
Hello,
I am doing a survey on food metaphors related to people in the English language - the number of them, motivations governing their creation and evaluative form - more pejorative or ameliorative.
What I have managed to found so far are:
sausage- silly person
prune- a disagreeable person
apple polisher- someone who takes your ideas and claims they are his or her own
cookie-woman, attractive girl
peach- a very nice person
top banana-boss
sharp cookie-a person who is not easily deceived
rotten apple- a bad member of a group
It would be kind if you coulld add some of nice expressions for people originating from food.
Diana
I am doing a survey on food metaphors related to people in the English language - the number of them, motivations governing their creation and evaluative form - more pejorative or ameliorative.
What I have managed to found so far are:
sausage- silly person
prune- a disagreeable person
apple polisher- someone who takes your ideas and claims they are his or her own
cookie-woman, attractive girl
peach- a very nice person
top banana-boss
sharp cookie-a person who is not easily deceived
rotten apple- a bad member of a group
It would be kind if you coulld add some of nice expressions for people originating from food.
Diana
Top answer
Sausage is not used today. Pruneface (meaning the person has a wrinkled face like a prune) is used today rather than prune. Apple polisher is okay.
- Sausage is not used today.
- Pruneface (meaning the person has a wrinkled face like a prune) is used today rather than prune.
- Apple polisher is okay.
- Cookie (meaning woman) is used today rather than cookie-woman.
- Peach (meaning a nice woman - not used to refer to men) is used.
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Sausage is not used today.
Pruneface (meaning the person has a wrinkled face like a prune) is used today rather than prune.
Apple polisher is okay.
Cookie (meaning woman) is used today rather than cookie-woman.
Peach (meaning a nice woman - not used to refer to men) is used. "She's a peach."
Top banana (meaning the number one person in some situation o
Pruneface (meaning the person has a wrinkled face like a prune) is used today rather than prune.
Apple polisher is okay.
Cookie (meaning woman) is used today rather than cookie-woman.
Peach (meaning a nice woman - not used to refer to men) is used. "She's a peach."
Top banana (meaning the number one person in some situation o
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