It is quite interesting that we Filipinos, in Freudian terms, seem to be very oral, as evidenced in the Tagalog phrase "Ang sarap!" That phrase doesn't only mean "delicious" in referring to food--it is applied to cute babies, crushes, joy rides, vacations, recreation, hobbies, sex, obsessive-compulsive habits, among others--even to anger-related examples as in "Ang sarap niyang patayin!" 

Does this verbal fixation have anything to do with breast feeding? It certainly isn't because "Filipinos love to eat"; I Posted elsewhere that, if that were true, we would have the largest culinary schools and cooking competitions in Asia. (Filipinos DO love to eat, but mostly chitchiria and standard office party food, not fine cuisine.)

Here are other oral phrases:

--Maasim ang mukha 

--Matamis na dila

--Matamis na ngiti

--Mapait ang sikmura (I'm not including "Mapait na katotohanan" because it is a literal translation from "The bitter truth".)

--Inaalat ang suwerte

--Matabang na pagtingin

--Maanghang na salita