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gravy

/grey-vee/US // ˈgreɪ vi //UK // (ˈɡreɪvɪ) //

肉汁,肉汁的,芡实,调味料

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural gra·vies.

    • : the fat and juices that drip from cooking meat, often thickened, seasoned, flavored, etc., and used as a sauce for meat, potatoes, rice, etc.
    • : Slang. profit or money easily obtained or received unexpectedly.money illegally or dishonestly acquired, especially through graft.
    • : something advantageous or valuable that is received or obtained as a benefit beyond what is due or expected.

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Examples

  • This method is great for sauces — including a quick pan sauce created after cooking a protein — and gravies that are only marginally looser than desired.

  • Like I always say, we try to do the best we can in the Dominican and Venezuela, and then anything else is gravy.

  • It’s especially good if the bread is a little sweet and the gravy a little too salty, so your senses keep getting mildly overwhelmed in different ways, like going in and out of the cooler saunas in a Korean spa.

  • He’s been in the kitchen since Thursday — baking dressing and stirring pots of gravy — and probably will not leave until it’s time to spend Thanksgiving with his own family.

  • This has been a very different year, so do something different with your gravy.

  • Sage and sausage patty came next, served between cumin scented Buttermilk biscuits and smothered in a black pepper country gravy.

  • I promised never again to wax lyrical about the fries in gravy.

  • The house version of chicken fried steak is, in fact, pork-fried steak, veiled in panko breadcrumbs under a mantle of gravy.

  • On the northeasternmost point of the U.S., pancake-like ployes are a daily staple, whether covered in syrup or soaking up gravy.

  • The tomato sauce is ‘gravy’ to many Italian-Americans of a certain class.

  • In eating bread with meat, never dip it into the gravy on your plate, and then bite the end off.

  • Zoms—Miss—take care of your feathers—has the scoundrel spilt the gravy down your back?

  • Add four hard-boiled yolks of eggs, and pour gravy all over, cover with puff paste, and bake for one hour and a quarter.

  • Arrange the chickens neatly in an entre dish, pour the gravy over and serve.

  • Let this stew for an hour; then take out the duck, strain the gravy, and remove all fat, and add plenty of mushrooms.

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