B
a ________ and butter issue
(a basic, fundamental problem which is of importance to many people, like tax rates or road conditions.)
BREAD
a land of milk and ______
(a country in which everything is in abundant supply)
HONEY
Half-____ ideas
(ideas that haven’t been thought through properly)
BAKED
It (all) ____ down to
(reducing a problem to its basic elements)
BOILS
(based on the fact that a boiling liquid reduces in volume and becomes more concentrated as it evaporates)
To jump out of the frying ___ into the fire
(go from a bad situation to an even worse one)
PAN
On a ______-edge
(in a tense situation, especially one that’s finely balanced between success and failure)
KNIFE
To _____ over
(when someone can’t control their anger and starts to argue or fight )
BOIL
To ____ someone
(to ask someone a lot of questions for a long time:
After being grilled by the police for eight hours, Johnson signed a confession.)
GRILL