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school cafeteria

Colloquial

(doing nothing but) eating and sleeping; living idly

Idiomatic expression

to live together; to be close friends; to eat out of the same pot

drinking and eating too much

to get tired of eating; to have enough of (a food)

to be stranded; to be forced to stay; to be obliged to stay

cheap restaurant; eating place (house)

digging into (e.g. one's skin); cutting into

inroads (e.g. into a market); encroachment (e.g. on territory); eating into (e.g. an opponent's electoral base)

deficit; loss

Colloquial

wedgie

sticking out; jutting out; protruding

instant foods

to get scolded severely

fermented food

like a pigeon who's been shot by a peashooter (i.e. wide-eyed in shock)

to leave food half-eaten

dietary fiber; dietary fibre

money loser; high-cost, low-return project

to have to wait (for the realization of something hoped for); to be forced to postpone

(living) from hand to mouth; living on the fringe of subsistence

lack of appetite; anorexia

half-eaten

daily set meal; daily special; plat du jour

food company

staff canteen

packed and sterilised food; retort food