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peas and rice

peas and rice

1.0
A simple dish of peas cooked with rice
  • noun
translation icon : guiso de guisantes y arroz
  • peas and rice with chicken
  • black-eyed peas and rice
  • eyed peas and rice

Examples

  • Boys, I got some field peas and rice cooking.

    Ray (2004)

  • For dinner, we eat hamburgers, peas, and rice, which I know how to make, and for dessert, a refrigerator pudding which I also know how to make.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • For lunch, I had a simple dish of peas and rice that reminded me of home.

  • Many families enjoy peas and rice as a quick and nutritious weeknight meal.

  • At the potluck, she brought a large bowl of peas and rice for everyone to share.

Antonyms

gourmet meal
5 4.9

A meal made with very good ingredients and careful cooking

How Simple

peas and rice
1.0
fried rice
11 1.0
pilaf
5 3.3
risotto
42 4.5
paella
17 5.1

Surface Forms

peas and rice singular
peas and rice plural

Morphology

pea + and + rice

The phrase literally lists two food items ('peas' + 'and' + 'rice') and therefore denotes a dish made of those ingredients; its meaning as a simple meal is directly compositional and predictable. This construction is cross-linguistically common and involves no idiomatic shift, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words will understand it.

Etymology

Peas and rice comes from a simple, everyday dish where peas are cooked with rice in one pot. Because both foods were cheap and common in many homes, the name now suggests 'a plain, basic meal'.