bacon-lettuce-tomato sandwich
- noun
- /ˈbeɪkən ˈlɛtɪs ˈtɑːmətoʊ ˈsænwɪtʃ/
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sándwich BLT
- I ordered a bacon-lettuce-tomato sandwich for lunch.
Examples
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The café is famous for their delicious bacon-lettuce-tomato sandwich on sourdough bread.
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She made a quick bacon-lettuce-tomato sandwich before heading to work.
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I ordered a bacon-lettuce-tomato sandwich with extra mayonnaise for lunch.
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Would you like a bacon-lettuce-tomato sandwich?
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I ordered a bacon-lettuce-tomato sandwich with extra mayonnaise for lunch.
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The café is famous for their delicious bacon-lettuce-tomato sandwich on sourdough bread.
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She made a quick bacon-lettuce-tomato sandwich before heading to work.
Synonyms
800
1.0
Two slices of bread with food like meat or cheese between them for a meal
11
1.8
A sandwich with bacon, lettuce, and tomato, usually on toasted bread with mayonnaise
How Filling
406
1.0
7
1.6
- Australian
471
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
bacon-lettuce-tomato + sandwich
The phrase directly lists the sandwich's ingredients — bacon, lettuce, and tomato — combined with the noun 'sandwich', so a learner who knows those words can readily infer it is a sandwich containing those items. This ingredient-list + 'sandwich' pattern is highly compositional and cross-linguistically common, making the meaning transparent to B1 learners.
Etymology
Bacon-lettuce-tomato sandwich comes from the simple stack of its three main ingredients: strips of bacon, leaves of lettuce, and slices of tomato, usually between toasted bread. Because the sandwich is literally those three layers, people began to call it by the ingredients and shortened the name to 'BLT', which makes it easy to remember what it is.