olive juice
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- noun
- /ˈɑlɪv dʒus/
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jugo de oliva
- This salad dressing combines lemon juice, olive oil, and olive juice for a zesty flavor.
Examples
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For a delicious flavor, mix the pasta with garlic, olive oil, and a splash of olive juice.
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Garnish with 5 olives and a teaspoon of olive juice.
Blog text (32) -
To create the perfect dirty martini, be sure to add a generous amount of olive juice.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'liquid obtained from olives' is directly and compositionally derived from combining 'olive' (the fruit) with 'juice' (liquid extracted from a plant), so the overall sense follows normal noun+noun compounding. This pattern is cross-linguistically common and requires no idiomatic knowledge, so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
Olive juice comes from the simple picture of squeezing an olive and getting oily juice from it. This oily, a little salty liquid is used to add flavor to food and drinks, so the phrase means 'the liquid from olives'.