to cook at home
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1.0
- phrasal verb
:
cocinar en casa
- We're eating out less, we're cooking at home more.
- meals you cook at home
- groceries to cook at home
- people who cook at home
Even now, like I just prefer to cook at home rather than eating out.
- Even now, like I just prefer to cook at home rather than eating out.
- My favorite things to cook at home would be Caribbean food and Asian food.
- It's easier to cook at home in some of these other ways.
- They they tend to cook at home as opposed to to going out.
- This is the reason why we never cook at home is because we never know like the amount of quantity to get and then we end up getting too much.
Examples
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Kathysue, I am trying to cook at home more often (in fact, I just posted some keepers from my cooking last week), and the asparagus with bacon and the chopped salad with cranberries are officially on the menu for next week.
Blog text (4) -
My favorite things to cook at home would be Caribbean food and Asian food.
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My favorite lunch to cook at home is probably something really simple.
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Better to save the money and cook at home.
Blog text (25) -
Even now, like I just prefer to cook at home rather than eating out.
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I prefer to cook at home.
Blog text (4) -
I think the main benefit of cooking at home is that we teach our children to be self-reliant through our actions.
Blog text (12) -
Eugenia had been cooking at home every night for months, avoiding the hefty restaurant checks of the good old days.
Fiction book (1995) -
It's almost always cheaper to cook at home than it is to eat out at restaurants or fast food joints (and this discounts the fact that your long-term health is the best investment you can make).
Blog text (12) -
I love to cook at home because it allows me to experiment with new recipes.
Synonyms
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1.1
Have a meal at home instead of going to a restaurant
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3.0
To eat a meal at home instead of going to a restaurant
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to prepare meals in one's own home' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'cook' (make meals) with the locative preposition 'at' and 'home' (one's residence). This simple locative composition is common cross-linguistically and follows basic English grammar, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
The phrase cook at home comes from the simple image of someone standing at their own stove and using their pots to cook in their home rather than eating out. So, it means 'to prepare and make meals in your own house instead of eating out'.