bushel of peaches
- noun
- /ˈbʌʃəl əv ˈpiːtʃɪz/
- US
:
bushel de duraznos
- We bought a bushel of peaches at the farmer's market for making preserves.
Examples
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Grandma always makes a pie whenever she gets a bushel of peaches in the summer.
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Each bushel of peaches weighed about fifty pounds when freshly picked.
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I bought a bushel of peaches from the farmer's market.
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She picked a bushel of peaches last summer.
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After visiting the orchard, we picked a bushel of peaches to take home.
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She bought a bushel of peaches at the market to make a pie.
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He harvested a bushel of peaches from his tree this summer.
Synonyms
An amount of things like apples or corn that fills about 35 litres
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Morphology
The phrase is directly compositional: 'bushel' is a unit of measure, 'of' marks the partitive relationship, and 'peaches' names the fruit, so the overall meaning is simply a quantity of peaches. This measurement + of + noun pattern is common across languages and follows standard English composition, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will understand it.
Etymology
The phrase bushel of peaches comes from farming. Farmers used a wooden basket called a bushel to collect peaches, and a full basket showed the same amount of fruit each time. That's why it now means 'a set amount' of peaches.