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Definition of cook in English: cookverb kʊkkʊk 1with object Prepare (food, a dish, or a meal) by mixing, combining, and heating the ingredients. 烹调，煮，烧 shall I cook dinner tonight? 今晚我做饭好吗？ with two objects she cooked me eggs and bacon 她为我做了鸡蛋和熏肉。 no object I told you I could cook 我告诉过你我会做饭。 Example sentencesExamples - Try to encourage children to help prepare and cook foods.
- When you're ready to prepare the dish, cook the pasta, drain it and set it aside.
- So when I broke my self-imposed 15-minute limit on preparing and cooking actual food, what did I make?
- Who does the shopping, writes the cards, buys the presents, puts up the decorations, prepares a crib, cooks the food and creates a festive family atmosphere?
- What was once a place solely for preparing and cooking food has become the centre of most homes.
- You need to think about how you prepare, store and cook food to keep it free from harmful bacteria that could make you or other people ill.
- After meals, refrigerate cooked leftovers as soon as possible.
- But then, few of us have the time or the energy anymore to prepare and cook the wholesome food we once enjoyed.
- In an ideal world, she said, everyone would prepare and cook their own meals without much salt and fat.
- The cause of the fire is not yet known but fire officials are urging homeowners to take care at home particularly while preparing and cooking food.
- They produce much of their own food, cook their own meals, and do their own laundry.
- Everyone then headed back to the school kitchens for a health and safety run-through before preparing and cooking the three-course meal.
- Once they have prepared and cooked the two-course meal, the children sit down at a table they have laid and eat together.
- She did her chores almost mechanically: gathering eggs, cooking meals, washing clothes and buying staples like bread.
- Never attempt such repair on utensils used for preparing or cooking food.
- There are subtle differences between the ingredients you use to cook food in London and the ingredients you use to cook food in Australia.
- The team was also marked on preparing and cooking meals, initiative bases, map and compass and teamwork.
- Last night, I actually bought ingredients, cooked dinner, and washed the dishes afterward.
- The program helps people learn how to budget, plan and cook meals for a food cost of $1.25 per person per day.
- Or try cooking low fat meals together using foods you both enjoy so you can spend time with each other and eat healthfully.
Synonyms prepare, make, get, put together bake informal fix, knock up, rustle up - 1.1no object (of food) be heated so that the state required for eating is reached.
被烹调；被烧煮 while the rice is cooking, add the saffron to the stock 煮饭时在汤里加一些藏红花。 Example sentencesExamples - Then it is sealed and steamed so that the raw meat cooks in the same time as the rice.
- I could also smell food cooking back in the kitchen, but could not hear the musicians playing over the dull roar of voices.
- A staple of the Afghan diet is a flat, unleavened bread cooked in clay ovens.
- Food cooked in a microwave oven does not present a radiation risk.
- Many whole-grain pastas cook more quickly than semolina pasta, so check label directions and taste the pasta often as it cooks.
- As the bacon cooked, the fat on the bacon reached its melting point and turned into liquid, leaving the pure, healthy pork meat behind.
- Many do feel that the food cooked in the microwave oven is not tasty.
- Dinner that night consisted of sizzler sausages cooked on the barbeque, microwave pasta, and yes, chips and dip on the side.
- During the 19th century, barbecues on these properties were legendary, with the beef cooking on a spit over a huge fire while ranchers and their ladies danced the night away.
- Inside the immaculately clean kitchen, bacon cooked in a frying pan on the stove.
- Never leave children unattended in kitchen while food is cooking.
- Nearby, two huge pots of rice and a bean stew cooked slowly on an open fire.
- She'd be making Chinese sausage cooked with rice and a fried egg, with just a dab of oyster sauce.
- A dog needs a ratio of two tablespoons lean ground meat per cupful of white rice cooked in chicken broth, fed at the rate of one cup per ten pounds of body weight.
- It starts with appetizers, such as kebabs - cubes of marinated meat cooked on skewers.
- I then add thin slices of lemon cooked gently in sugar syrup.
- Food cooked over wood and water heated with wood felt different, tasted different.
- Complement your healthy summer lifestyle with fresh food cooked on the barbecue.
- Malays eat rice with fish or meat curry and vegetables cooked in various ways.
- He added that repeated use of old oil will contaminate food cooked in it increasing the risk of disease and cancer.
Synonyms sizzle, crackle, fizz, hiss, spit, sputter, crack, snap - 1.2cook something down Heat food and cause it to thicken and reduce in volume.
熬制（食品） cooking down the chutney can take up to 45 minutes 熬制酸辣酱需要45分钟。 Example sentencesExamples - The idea is to blend the flavors and cook it down until the meat and potatoes are crisp, and the other vegetables are soft and caramelized.
- The solution, food columnist Amy M. Topel suggests in The Green Guide, is to cook tomatoes down to their essence in a paste, so that all through the winter you can add their tangy goodness to pasta sauce, soups, stews and even vinaigrettes.
- And you cook it down until it resembles pudding.
- Mary gets together with friends and makes 40 to 50 quarts of tomato juice by cutting up all the fruit that's neither rotten nor moldy, cooking it down until it's soft, then put it through a food mill and can what comes out of the bottom.
- I also cooked down some apples into apple mush so that we can use that in a smoothie today.
- One traditional dish that I did not sample is a curious bowl of fat rendering from the ‘fat back’ of a pig (basically the skin with all the fat attached) that they cook down into concentrated lard (think Crisco), mix in bacon, salt, and pepper.
- Often the unfermented sweet grapes will be added to the wine, and sometimes the grape juice will be cooked down into a sweetened paste, which can be added to the wine to intensify it.
- In which case, the fruit wasn't cooked down enough.
- The skins will be easy to remove after thawing, and you can add the tomatoes to soups or salads, or cook them down for sauce or ketchup.
- After simmering for a period of time, remove the sack with the residue and continue to cook the tea down to a thick moist mat at the bottom of the pot.
- Roast whole barley, add water, and cook it down - you'll end up with barley malt syrup.
2informal with object Alter dishonestly; falsify. 〈非正式〉篡改；伪造 a narcotics team who cooked the evidence 制造假证据的缉毒小组。 Example sentencesExamples - Brinkley offers no evidence that the numbers were cooked or the questions were unfairly worded.
- A scientist who believes in the Creator is suspected of cooking the evidence to support his belief.
- When I heard that he had cooked his evidence, my first reaction was ‘how stupid’.
Synonyms falsify, alter, doctor, tamper with, interfere with, massage, manipulate, rig, misrepresent forge British informal fiddle - 2.1be cooked Be in an inescapably bad situation.
陷入困境 if I can't talk to him I'm cooked 要是不能和他谈一谈，我就惨了。 Example sentencesExamples - There was steam coming out of McLeish's ears from early yesterday, a sure sign that, like his team, the Rangers manager is also cooked.
- Certainly the subtext of Andersen's book is that we of the media class - even if he allows his alter ego a better fate - are cooked.
3be cookinginformal no object Be happening or planned. 〈非正式〉发生；计划中 what's cooking on the alternative fuels front? 替代燃料这个领域有什么进展？ Example sentencesExamples - Meanwhile, more than 8,000 miles away in Mongolia, another egg surprise was cooking.
- Evidently this has been cooking for several months, but the word recently leaked out, and a paper has been rushed to the online edition of Science.
Synonyms happen, go on, occur, take place North American informal go down 4North American informal no object Perform or proceed vigorously or very well. 〈北美，非正式〉干得起劲；做得欢；干得好 the band used to get up on the bandstand and really cook 这支乐队以前总是站在乐池里，演奏得热火朝天。 Example sentencesExamples - Luckily, these guys love to cook - whoever isn't cutting tracks is cooking!
- By the end of their set, when they played ‘Burn Baby Burn’ from their new Free All Angels, they were really cooking.
- Ya boy Santana's back like cooked… well, you know the rest.
- The album doesn't really get cooking until its second half, where the songs have agendas other than beating listeners senseless.
noun kʊkkʊk A person who prepares and cooks food, especially as a job or in a specified way. 烹饪者；厨师，炊事员 苏珊是学校的厨师。 我做得一手好菜。 Example sentencesExamples - The U.S. Department of Agriculture outlines food handling tips to help cooks prepare turkeys that won't cause sickness.
- One of the beautiful things about this open-plan restaurant is that you can watch the cooks prepare your food as you enjoy the surroundings.
- Phoenix sat back and watched as they gorged themselves on all manner of foods the cooks had so nicely prepared for her.
- All over America on this day, short order cooks and chefs were making eggs over easy with great success.
- I knew a cook who would routinely prepare an extra portion for himself to eat before he came to table.
- But when I got home I found that our cook had prepared this delicious chicken, and I just couldn't say no!
- The competition, held annually as part of the wine festival, brings together fine pastry chefs and cooks from the region's restaurants and hotels to compete.
- Pat always eats on board and even has a full-time cook to prepare the finest food on his salubrious floating residence.
- Or, a cook might prepare ‘fried corn,’ by cutting the grains off of the cob and creaming them in a skillet.
- It's not her fault the cook hasn't prepared my food properly.
- He teaches his cooks to prepare his recipes, his way.
- The biggest change in food television over the last five years has been the move away from showing cooks prepare food to revealing how they manage their careers and lives.
- I became aware of the cooks preparing food for us, and the servers serving us, and I began to feel grateful that they were all working so that I could sit!
- Many have open kitchens where you can see firsthand that there are no health-code violations, plus you can watch the cooks preparing your food.
- The cook prepared a small bag of food for the girl's journey; she tied it to her travel sack.
- In addition to the pre-packaged food, a cook prepares a selection of three hot buffet style meals and one salad daily.
- I'm not going to eat something a cook prepares if she doesn't taste it first.
- She was a great cook and excelled at preparing food.
- Johnny, who was a professional cook, prepared a roast calf and served it with his ever so special mashed potato-gravy sauce.
- Instead, the heady aroma of cooking kept everyone awake and waiting to taste the fare prepared by a native cook, who donned the role of lecturer for the day.
Synonyms cook, cordon bleu cook, food preparer
Phrasesinformal Alter facts or figures dishonestly or illegally. 〈非正式〉作假；篡改（事实或数字） he was an accountant, he could have cooked the books and made himself a lot more money Example sentencesExamples - The guidelines, created by the government in 1991, instruct federal judges on how to punish organizations guilty of crimes such as fraud, polluting, and cooking the books.
- Certainly, none of these CEOs has been accused of looting the company or cooking the books.
- But in the cases that we refer to the criminal authorities, it is pretty clear that these are people who were deliberately and knowingly cooking the books.
- Yes, I mean, Martha was not a white-collar criminal raiding a corporate community chest, cooking the books.
- The effects were caused, however, by the crooks who cooked the books.
- ‘Tanning salons are an extremely popular way to clean up dirty money because there is a lot of potential for cooking the books,’ said one former member of the Scottish Crime Squad.
- This procedure tells the students that the teacher is more than likely to be a cheat and a sneak, who will cook the books if given a chance.
- Does he engage in dishonest schemes such as cooking the books?
- ‘The fact is, it is too easy to cook the books if there is no regulatory structure to check it,’ he said.
- He was a crook who absolutely cooked the books to hide his crimes.
- These people who have succumbed to the temptations of cooking the books and just become greedy at the expense of the people who trusted them - there's no excuse for that.
- My administration will do everything in its power to end the days of cooking the books and shading the truth and breaking our laws.
- When a company cooks the books, its best bet is to come clean itself.
- Historical fact is one thing, but cooking the books where science is concerned is another altogether.
- But then analysts stepped in and said, in effect, ‘We know the company and it's not cooking the books.’
- And while it is very difficult for investors to know if a company is cooking the books until it's too late, they don't have to be completely in the dark about questionable management activities and dealings.
- But stakeholders in government (the citizens) don't see a correspondingly immediate and painful financial consequence when their government cooks the books.
- Even his enemies find it hard not to admire the skill with which he cooks the books.
- He, or rather those cooking the books for him, attempts to scare us with projections that the Social Security trust fund will begin to run deficits thirty-eight years from now.
- He has largely done it, because he claims insurance companies, with the collusion of regulators, have been cooking the books for years.
Synonyms falsify, manipulate, massage, rig, distort, pervert, misrepresent, juggle, doctor, alter, tamper with, interfere with
informal Spoil someone's plans; cause someone's downfall. 〈非正式〉使（某人的计划等）受挫；使垮台 I've got enough on you to cook your goose Example sentencesExamples - Revelation inevitably turned to revolution in 1789, as generous helpings of liberté, égalité and fraternité cooked the king 's goose.
- That 100% accurate guarantee part was what cooked my goose in the end, but the times were good for over seven years.
- That cooked my goose in the birthplace of selective democracy.
- He lost to incumbent Tom Murphy in the Democrat primaries in 1997 and 2001, but many believe the city's financial problems have cooked Murphy 's goose.
- A loss to Spain and a draw with South Africa seemed to have cooked their goose, but they somehow managed to scrape through to the last 16.
- Long before our cyclists left for Malaysia, they - or rather the officials - had cooked their goose.
- But Australia does have immense, hot cultural strength and flaming pride and we will cook Howard 's goose with it.
- In a small rural district, a couple of kids having an off day can cook a school 's goose.
Synonyms wreck, ruin, spoil, disrupt, undo, upset, play havoc with, make a mess of, put an end to, end, bring to an end, put a stop to, terminate, prevent, frustrate, blight, crush, quell, quash, dash, scotch, shatter, vitiate, blast, devastate, demolish, sabotage, torpedo
too many cooks spoil the broth proverb If too many people are involved in a task or activity, it will not be done well. 〈谚〉厨师多了烧坏汤；人多反坏事 Example sentencesExamples - Do too many cooks spoil the broth in the Rathbun household?
- It is rightly said that too many cooks spoil the broth.
- We've heard: too many cooks spoil the broth: just this time it cannot be true.
- And so it looks as though it was a case of too many cooks spoil the broth.
- Aside from the inappropriateness of such instigation, too many cooks spoil the broth in monetary policies.
- Just when you are thinking too many cooks spoil the broth, suddenly someone will remind you that many hands make light work.
- There is no such thing as too many cooks spoil the broth when it comes to making soup for the homeless, and the Salvation Army know this.
- Remember, too many cooks spoil the broth, but think of the concept that two heads are better than one!
Phrasal VerbsConcoct a clever or devious story, excuse, or plan. I've had plenty of time to cook up an outlandish conspiracy theory Example sentencesExamples - In the meantime, unbeknown to the French, the British and Germans were cooking up their own plan.
- Worse still, there was this conspiracy theory that there was no plague at all and that the cases were cooked up by authorities who could be pressured to abandon the anti-plague measures by show of opposition.
- The company has been cooking up cunning plans to revitalise the business for the past 10 years; yet all it has delivered is relentless decline.
- I have a hard time believing the leak was cooked up at a meeting - it seems more likely that a couple of top officials cooked it up in the men's room and acted rashly out of the belief that they would never be caught or held accountable.
- However, the eldest son decides the family ought to stay put, cooking up a plan to turn the ox and cart back homeward.
- Then he leaned close towards his faithful servants, and said in a soft voice, ‘You two really are cooking something up, and I can't wait to find out what it is.’
- When, in fact, we're several people who cooked this idea up back in 1999, when we were drunk and wondering if all the computers were going to collapse because of Y2K.
- I guess I should get back to it, and see if maybe I can accidentally cook something up that's good for this logo.
- I don't have much faith in the plan, no… frankly, Himmler's mad in my book for cooking it up.
- What plan is Franklin cooking up in that dark mind of his?
Synonyms concoct, devise, put together, create, contrive, fabricate, prepare, trump up, hatch, brew, plot, plan, scheme
Derivativesadjective This invention relates to a coating for foodstuffs which is cookable by means of a microwave oven. Example sentencesExamples - I started pulling out cooking utensils to find any food that was cookable.
- But if a new product came onto the market that tasted like perfectly cooked lamb, contained only good things like protein and starch and vitamins, had minimal calories and was cookable in the microwave, could you avoid buying it?
OriginOld English cōc (noun), from popular Latin cocus, from Latin coquus. The Old English coc, the early form of cook, was always male. The word was applied either to the domestic officer in charge of the preparation of food in a large household or to a tradesman who prepared and sold food. Women who prepared dinner started being called cooks in the mid 16th century. The root of the word is Latin coquus, also the source of concoct (mid 16th century) and biscuit. Cook has been used to mean ‘to tamper with’ since the 1630s, giving us cook the books, meaning ‘to alter records or accounts dishonestly’. The proverb too many cooks spoil the broth also dates back to the 16th century. It is not certain where the phrase cook someone's goose comes from. The reference could be to a goose being reared and fattened up for a forthcoming special occasion. Anyone who killed and cooked the goose before the proper time would have ruined the plans for the feast.
Rhymesbetook, book, brook, Brooke, Chinook, chook, Coke, Cooke, crook, forsook, Gluck, hook, look, mistook, nook, partook, rook, schnook, schtuck, Shilluk, shook, Tobruk, took, undercook, undertook Definition of cook in US English: cookverbko͝okkʊk 1with object Prepare (food, a dish, or a meal) by combining and heating the ingredients in various ways. 烹调，煮，烧 shall I cook dinner tonight? 今晚我做饭好吗？ no object I told you I could cook 我告诉过你我会做饭。 Example sentencesExamples - Last night, I actually bought ingredients, cooked dinner, and washed the dishes afterward.
- What was once a place solely for preparing and cooking food has become the centre of most homes.
- She did her chores almost mechanically: gathering eggs, cooking meals, washing clothes and buying staples like bread.
- But then, few of us have the time or the energy anymore to prepare and cook the wholesome food we once enjoyed.
- After meals, refrigerate cooked leftovers as soon as possible.
- When you're ready to prepare the dish, cook the pasta, drain it and set it aside.
- In an ideal world, she said, everyone would prepare and cook their own meals without much salt and fat.
- So when I broke my self-imposed 15-minute limit on preparing and cooking actual food, what did I make?
- Who does the shopping, writes the cards, buys the presents, puts up the decorations, prepares a crib, cooks the food and creates a festive family atmosphere?
- The cause of the fire is not yet known but fire officials are urging homeowners to take care at home particularly while preparing and cooking food.
- The program helps people learn how to budget, plan and cook meals for a food cost of $1.25 per person per day.
- There are subtle differences between the ingredients you use to cook food in London and the ingredients you use to cook food in Australia.
- Try to encourage children to help prepare and cook foods.
- They produce much of their own food, cook their own meals, and do their own laundry.
- Everyone then headed back to the school kitchens for a health and safety run-through before preparing and cooking the three-course meal.
- The team was also marked on preparing and cooking meals, initiative bases, map and compass and teamwork.
- Never attempt such repair on utensils used for preparing or cooking food.
- Once they have prepared and cooked the two-course meal, the children sit down at a table they have laid and eat together.
- Or try cooking low fat meals together using foods you both enjoy so you can spend time with each other and eat healthfully.
- You need to think about how you prepare, store and cook food to keep it free from harmful bacteria that could make you or other people ill.
Synonyms prepare, make, get, put together - 1.1no object (of food) be heated so that the condition required for eating is reached.
被烹调；被烧煮 while the rice is cooking, add the saffron to the stock 煮饭时在汤里加一些藏红花。 Example sentencesExamples - As the bacon cooked, the fat on the bacon reached its melting point and turned into liquid, leaving the pure, healthy pork meat behind.
- A staple of the Afghan diet is a flat, unleavened bread cooked in clay ovens.
- Dinner that night consisted of sizzler sausages cooked on the barbeque, microwave pasta, and yes, chips and dip on the side.
- A dog needs a ratio of two tablespoons lean ground meat per cupful of white rice cooked in chicken broth, fed at the rate of one cup per ten pounds of body weight.
- Food cooked over wood and water heated with wood felt different, tasted different.
- She'd be making Chinese sausage cooked with rice and a fried egg, with just a dab of oyster sauce.
- Never leave children unattended in kitchen while food is cooking.
- It starts with appetizers, such as kebabs - cubes of marinated meat cooked on skewers.
- Inside the immaculately clean kitchen, bacon cooked in a frying pan on the stove.
- I then add thin slices of lemon cooked gently in sugar syrup.
- Complement your healthy summer lifestyle with fresh food cooked on the barbecue.
- Many do feel that the food cooked in the microwave oven is not tasty.
- He added that repeated use of old oil will contaminate food cooked in it increasing the risk of disease and cancer.
- Food cooked in a microwave oven does not present a radiation risk.
- Malays eat rice with fish or meat curry and vegetables cooked in various ways.
- Then it is sealed and steamed so that the raw meat cooks in the same time as the rice.
- Nearby, two huge pots of rice and a bean stew cooked slowly on an open fire.
- Many whole-grain pastas cook more quickly than semolina pasta, so check label directions and taste the pasta often as it cooks.
- During the 19th century, barbecues on these properties were legendary, with the beef cooking on a spit over a huge fire while ranchers and their ladies danced the night away.
- I could also smell food cooking back in the kitchen, but could not hear the musicians playing over the dull roar of voices.
Synonyms sizzle, crackle, fizz, hiss, spit, sputter, crack, snap - 1.2cook something down Heat food and cause it to thicken and reduce in volume.
熬制（食品） cooking down the chutney can take up to 45 minutes 熬制酸辣酱需要45分钟。 Example sentencesExamples - Roast whole barley, add water, and cook it down - you'll end up with barley malt syrup.
- One traditional dish that I did not sample is a curious bowl of fat rendering from the ‘fat back’ of a pig (basically the skin with all the fat attached) that they cook down into concentrated lard (think Crisco), mix in bacon, salt, and pepper.
- Often the unfermented sweet grapes will be added to the wine, and sometimes the grape juice will be cooked down into a sweetened paste, which can be added to the wine to intensify it.
- After simmering for a period of time, remove the sack with the residue and continue to cook the tea down to a thick moist mat at the bottom of the pot.
- Mary gets together with friends and makes 40 to 50 quarts of tomato juice by cutting up all the fruit that's neither rotten nor moldy, cooking it down until it's soft, then put it through a food mill and can what comes out of the bottom.
- I also cooked down some apples into apple mush so that we can use that in a smoothie today.
- And you cook it down until it resembles pudding.
- In which case, the fruit wasn't cooked down enough.
- The skins will be easy to remove after thawing, and you can add the tomatoes to soups or salads, or cook them down for sauce or ketchup.
- The solution, food columnist Amy M. Topel suggests in The Green Guide, is to cook tomatoes down to their essence in a paste, so that all through the winter you can add their tangy goodness to pasta sauce, soups, stews and even vinaigrettes.
- The idea is to blend the flavors and cook it down until the meat and potatoes are crisp, and the other vegetables are soft and caramelized.
2informal with object Alter dishonestly; falsify. 〈非正式〉篡改；伪造 a narcotics team who cooked the evidence 制造假证据的缉毒小组。 Example sentencesExamples - Brinkley offers no evidence that the numbers were cooked or the questions were unfairly worded.
- A scientist who believes in the Creator is suspected of cooking the evidence to support his belief.
- When I heard that he had cooked his evidence, my first reaction was ‘how stupid’.
Synonyms falsify, alter, doctor, tamper with, interfere with, massage, manipulate, rig, misrepresent - 2.1be cooked Be in an inescapably bad situation.
陷入困境 if I can't talk to him I'm cooked 要是不能和他谈一谈，我就惨了。 Example sentencesExamples - Certainly the subtext of Andersen's book is that we of the media class - even if he allows his alter ego a better fate - are cooked.
- There was steam coming out of McLeish's ears from early yesterday, a sure sign that, like his team, the Rangers manager is also cooked.
3be cookinginformal no object Be happening or planned. 〈非正式〉发生；计划中 what's cooking on the alternative fuels front? 替代燃料这个领域有什么进展？ Example sentencesExamples - Evidently this has been cooking for several months, but the word recently leaked out, and a paper has been rushed to the online edition of Science.
- Meanwhile, more than 8,000 miles away in Mongolia, another egg surprise was cooking.
Synonyms happen, go on, occur, take place 4North American informal no object Perform or proceed vigorously or well. 〈北美，非正式〉干得起劲；做得欢；干得好 the band used to get up on the bandstand and really cook 这支乐队以前总是站在乐池里，演奏得热火朝天。 Example sentencesExamples - The album doesn't really get cooking until its second half, where the songs have agendas other than beating listeners senseless.
- Ya boy Santana's back like cooked… well, you know the rest.
- Luckily, these guys love to cook - whoever isn't cutting tracks is cooking!
- By the end of their set, when they played ‘Burn Baby Burn’ from their new Free All Angels, they were really cooking.
nounko͝okkʊk A person who prepares and cooks food, especially as a job or in a specified way. 烹饪者；厨师，炊事员 我做得一手好菜。 Example sentencesExamples - In addition to the pre-packaged food, a cook prepares a selection of three hot buffet style meals and one salad daily.
- All over America on this day, short order cooks and chefs were making eggs over easy with great success.
- The biggest change in food television over the last five years has been the move away from showing cooks prepare food to revealing how they manage their careers and lives.
- It's not her fault the cook hasn't prepared my food properly.
- He teaches his cooks to prepare his recipes, his way.
- The competition, held annually as part of the wine festival, brings together fine pastry chefs and cooks from the region's restaurants and hotels to compete.
- Johnny, who was a professional cook, prepared a roast calf and served it with his ever so special mashed potato-gravy sauce.
- One of the beautiful things about this open-plan restaurant is that you can watch the cooks prepare your food as you enjoy the surroundings.
- Or, a cook might prepare ‘fried corn,’ by cutting the grains off of the cob and creaming them in a skillet.
- I'm not going to eat something a cook prepares if she doesn't taste it first.
- I knew a cook who would routinely prepare an extra portion for himself to eat before he came to table.
- The U.S. Department of Agriculture outlines food handling tips to help cooks prepare turkeys that won't cause sickness.
- Instead, the heady aroma of cooking kept everyone awake and waiting to taste the fare prepared by a native cook, who donned the role of lecturer for the day.
- I became aware of the cooks preparing food for us, and the servers serving us, and I began to feel grateful that they were all working so that I could sit!
- Many have open kitchens where you can see firsthand that there are no health-code violations, plus you can watch the cooks preparing your food.
- She was a great cook and excelled at preparing food.
- Pat always eats on board and even has a full-time cook to prepare the finest food on his salubrious floating residence.
- But when I got home I found that our cook had prepared this delicious chicken, and I just couldn't say no!
- Phoenix sat back and watched as they gorged themselves on all manner of foods the cooks had so nicely prepared for her.
- The cook prepared a small bag of food for the girl's journey; she tied it to her travel sack.
Synonyms cook, cordon bleu cook, food preparer
Phrasesinformal Alter facts or figures dishonestly or illegally. 〈非正式〉作假；篡改（事实或数字） Example sentencesExamples - My administration will do everything in its power to end the days of cooking the books and shading the truth and breaking our laws.
- Historical fact is one thing, but cooking the books where science is concerned is another altogether.
- But stakeholders in government (the citizens) don't see a correspondingly immediate and painful financial consequence when their government cooks the books.
- He was a crook who absolutely cooked the books to hide his crimes.
- This procedure tells the students that the teacher is more than likely to be a cheat and a sneak, who will cook the books if given a chance.
- Even his enemies find it hard not to admire the skill with which he cooks the books.
- When a company cooks the books, its best bet is to come clean itself.
- These people who have succumbed to the temptations of cooking the books and just become greedy at the expense of the people who trusted them - there's no excuse for that.
- Does he engage in dishonest schemes such as cooking the books?
- ‘The fact is, it is too easy to cook the books if there is no regulatory structure to check it,’ he said.
- The guidelines, created by the government in 1991, instruct federal judges on how to punish organizations guilty of crimes such as fraud, polluting, and cooking the books.
- But in the cases that we refer to the criminal authorities, it is pretty clear that these are people who were deliberately and knowingly cooking the books.
- He has largely done it, because he claims insurance companies, with the collusion of regulators, have been cooking the books for years.
- And while it is very difficult for investors to know if a company is cooking the books until it's too late, they don't have to be completely in the dark about questionable management activities and dealings.
- ‘Tanning salons are an extremely popular way to clean up dirty money because there is a lot of potential for cooking the books,’ said one former member of the Scottish Crime Squad.
- He, or rather those cooking the books for him, attempts to scare us with projections that the Social Security trust fund will begin to run deficits thirty-eight years from now.
- The effects were caused, however, by the crooks who cooked the books.
- Yes, I mean, Martha was not a white-collar criminal raiding a corporate community chest, cooking the books.
- But then analysts stepped in and said, in effect, ‘We know the company and it's not cooking the books.’
- Certainly, none of these CEOs has been accused of looting the company or cooking the books.
Synonyms falsify, manipulate, massage, rig, distort, pervert, misrepresent, juggle, doctor, alter, tamper with, interfere with
informal Cause someone's downfall. 〈非正式〉使（某人的计划等）受挫；使垮台 I've got enough on you to cook your goose Example sentencesExamples - Revelation inevitably turned to revolution in 1789, as generous helpings of liberté, égalité and fraternité cooked the king 's goose.
- But Australia does have immense, hot cultural strength and flaming pride and we will cook Howard 's goose with it.
- That 100% accurate guarantee part was what cooked my goose in the end, but the times were good for over seven years.
- He lost to incumbent Tom Murphy in the Democrat primaries in 1997 and 2001, but many believe the city's financial problems have cooked Murphy 's goose.
- Long before our cyclists left for Malaysia, they - or rather the officials - had cooked their goose.
- In a small rural district, a couple of kids having an off day can cook a school 's goose.
- A loss to Spain and a draw with South Africa seemed to have cooked their goose, but they somehow managed to scrape through to the last 16.
- That cooked my goose in the birthplace of selective democracy.
Synonyms wreck, ruin, spoil, disrupt, undo, upset, play havoc with, make a mess of, put an end to, end, bring to an end, put a stop to, terminate, prevent, frustrate, blight, crush, quell, quash, dash, scotch, shatter, vitiate, blast, devastate, demolish, sabotage, torpedo
too many cooks spoil the broth proverb If too many people are involved in a task, it will not be done well. 〈谚〉厨师多了烧坏汤；人多反坏事 Example sentencesExamples - It is rightly said that too many cooks spoil the broth.
- We've heard: too many cooks spoil the broth: just this time it cannot be true.
- There is no such thing as too many cooks spoil the broth when it comes to making soup for the homeless, and the Salvation Army know this.
- And so it looks as though it was a case of too many cooks spoil the broth.
- Remember, too many cooks spoil the broth, but think of the concept that two heads are better than one!
- Aside from the inappropriateness of such instigation, too many cooks spoil the broth in monetary policies.
- Do too many cooks spoil the broth in the Rathbun household?
- Just when you are thinking too many cooks spoil the broth, suddenly someone will remind you that many hands make light work.
Phrasal VerbsConcoct a story, excuse, or plan, especially an ingenious or devious one. 策划；捏造（情况，理由，计划） Example sentencesExamples - I guess I should get back to it, and see if maybe I can accidentally cook something up that's good for this logo.
- I don't have much faith in the plan, no… frankly, Himmler's mad in my book for cooking it up.
- Then he leaned close towards his faithful servants, and said in a soft voice, ‘You two really are cooking something up, and I can't wait to find out what it is.’
- I have a hard time believing the leak was cooked up at a meeting - it seems more likely that a couple of top officials cooked it up in the men's room and acted rashly out of the belief that they would never be caught or held accountable.
- However, the eldest son decides the family ought to stay put, cooking up a plan to turn the ox and cart back homeward.
- The company has been cooking up cunning plans to revitalise the business for the past 10 years; yet all it has delivered is relentless decline.
- When, in fact, we're several people who cooked this idea up back in 1999, when we were drunk and wondering if all the computers were going to collapse because of Y2K.
- In the meantime, unbeknown to the French, the British and Germans were cooking up their own plan.
- What plan is Franklin cooking up in that dark mind of his?
- Worse still, there was this conspiracy theory that there was no plague at all and that the cases were cooked up by authorities who could be pressured to abandon the anti-plague measures by show of opposition.
Synonyms concoct, devise, put together, create, contrive, fabricate, prepare, trump up, hatch, brew, plot, plan, scheme
OriginOld English cōc (noun), from popular Latin cocus, from Latin coquus. |