to lick out the bowl
- phrasal verb
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lamer el bol
- He waited until everyone had finished before he licked out the bowl of icing.
Examples
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Don't forget to lick out the bowl after mixing the batter!
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Emma always licks out the bowl when she bakes cookies.
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As soon as I finished baking, the children rushed to lick out the bowl.
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She loves to lick out the bowl after making chocolate cake batter.
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The children were excited to lick out the bowl after making their favorite chocolate cake.
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After preparing the icing, she let her dog lick out the bowl to clean it thoroughly.
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He savored each moment as he licked out the bowl to get every last bit of frosting.
Synonyms
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1.0
To pass the tongue over something to taste or clean it
Use your tongue to remove food or liquid from inside a container
Antonyms
How Clean
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from the parts: 'lick' (use the tongue) + 'out' (remove from the interior) + 'bowl' (container), so the phrase literally describes removing and eating the remaining contents. The removal sense of 'out' with a container is a common, cross-linguistic compositional pattern, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily understand this expression.
Etymology
Lick out the bowl comes from the simple, literal picture of someone using their lick, meaning the tongue, to clean every last bit from a bowl after cooking. That's why it means 'to use your tongue to remove and eat the last bits of food from a bowl'.