eat your vegetables
Finish your greens
Eat your vegetables is a command to do something unpleasant but good for you, extended from the literal dinner-table directive to children.
The phrase frames any beneficial but tedious task as medicine to be swallowed: Sometimes you just have to eat your vegetables and finish the paperwork.
It acknowledges that virtue isn't always enjoyable.
- broccoliCruciferous vegetable with florets
- spinachEdible dark green leaves
- carrotsEdible orange taproots
- leafy greensEdible plant foliage
- greensLeafy edible plants
healthy · good for you · dinner · plate · clean your plate · one more bite · nutrition · mom · childhood · finish · reluctant · peas · salad · vitamins · chew · picky eater · stubborn · growing
- dining phrasesbon appetit, enjoy your meal, dig in, come and get it, pass the salt
- life advicebe honest, be kind, be patient, work hard, keep promises
- momismsI told you so, no means no, back in my day, clean your room, do your homework
eat your vegetablestreat yourself
Allow personal indulgence
junk food · comfort food · guilty pleasure · forbidden fruit
eat your vegetableslife is short
Existence passes quickly
instant gratification · seize the day · live a little · carpe diem · take the easy way out
eat your vegetablesjunk food
Low-nutrition processed snacks
comfort food · guilty pleasure · empty calories · fast food · indulgence
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