be meat and drink to sb
Definition
› If a difficult or unpleasant activity is meat and drink to someone, they enjoy doing it very much and find it easy.Taking pleasure in something
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be made of money idiom 2
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be make or break for sb/sth idiom
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be man enough to do sth idiom
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be marked out as sth idiom
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be meant for each other idiom
- be meat and drink to sb idiom
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be miles away idiom
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be mixed up with/in sth idiom
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be more to sth than meets the eye idiom
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be more to this than meets the eye idiom
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be murder idiom
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Synonyms and related words:
- bask in sth phrasal verb
- bask/bathe in reflected glory idiom
- be a glutton for punishment idiom
- be a great one for sth idiom
- be/go into ecstasies about/over sth idiom
- feast your eyes on sth/sb idiom
- gad about/around (somewhere) phrasal verb
- get over sth/sb phrasal verb
- glory in sth phrasal verb
- have a ball idiom
- have a field day idiom
- have a rare old time idiom
- hedonism noun
- luxuriate in sth phrasal verb
- masochism noun
- perk (sb) up phrasal verb
- relish verb
- revel verb
- run to sth phrasal verb (ACTIVITY)
- slaver verb
Topic:
Taking pleasure in something
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