cooking lager
- noun
:
cerveza para cocinar
- I enjoy a cold cooking lager while preparing dinner.
Examples
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She offered her guests a cooking lager as they prepared the barbecue together.
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While making dinner, he always cracked open a cooking lager to relax.
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Many chefs enjoy a cold cooking lager while trying out new recipes.
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Do you have any cooking lagers in the fridge?
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Many chefs enjoy a cold cooking lager while trying out new recipes.
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She offered her guests a cooking lager as they prepared the barbecue together.
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While making dinner, he always cracked open a cooking lager to relax.
How Premium
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is transparently built from 'cooking' + 'lager' so a B1 learner who knows both words will grasp it denotes a kind of lager related to cooking (e.g. used in or consumed while cooking). However, the specific pragmatic nuance in the provided definition — that it is drunk while preparing food and signals a casual/everyday rather than premium beer — is not fully predictable from the parts and the phrase can be ambiguous, so the transparency is partial.
Etymology
Cooking lager may come from the simple picture of someone opening an everyday lager while cooking in the kitchen, using the beer to relax rather than as a special drink. So today it means 'a beer you have while preparing food', a casual, everyday drink.