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toad-in-the-hole

/tohd-in-thuh-hohl/US // ˈtoʊd ɪn ðəˈhoʊl //

癞蛤蟆想吃天鹅肉,蛤蟆洞,癞蛤蟆打洞,癞蛤蟆洞

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    British Cooking.

    • : a dish consisting of beef or pork sausages baked in a coating of batter.

Examples

  • France 24 is providing live, round-the-clock coverage of both scenes as they progress.

  • Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.

  • Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.

  • This is a guy who has his son-in-law clean his eyeglasses, for crying out loud.

  • Her travel clique has been known to arrive at an airport, bags packed, passport-in-hand, within hours of spotting a deal.

  • Before he could finish the sentence the Hole-keeper said snappishly, "Well, drop out again—quick!"

  • Kind of a reception-room in there—guess I know a reception-room from a hole in the wall.

  • Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.

  • Squinty, several times, looked at the hole under the pen, by which he had once gotten out.

  • Madame and myself had just been regretting that we should have to pass the evening in this miserable hole of a town.