Did you know we Italians are so obsessed with food we have to put it everywhere? [this list is constantly updated]

Food-related Italian expressions

To be good-natured, kind-hearted (literally: to be good like bread)

To be so full of food you really cannot eat anything else (literally: to be full like an egg)

To be meaningless, dull, uninteresting (literally: to be without sauce)

To be boring, tedious, unnecessarily long (literally: meatloaf)
e.g., Quel film è un polpettone!

To have a very close relationship (with [sb]), to have a high affinity and compatibility (with [sb]) (literally: to be food and fat)
e.g., Quei due sono proprio pappa e ciccia!

A lot of chatter but nothing achieved concretely (literally: all smoke and no roast)

To be completely inappropriate for a situation (literally: to be like cabbages at snack time)

Kind scolding to someone who uses difficult words when unnecessary (literally: speak in the same way you eat)
e.g., Smettila di vantarti e parla come mangi!

To retaliate (literally: to pay back bread with focaccia)

To be fulfilled and achieved entirely by one single person (literally: to be flour of [one's] bag)
e.g., Dai, ammetti che hai copiato e che non è tutta farina del tuo sacco!