favorite dish
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- noun
- US
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plato favorito
- I'm making his favorite dish, tortilla stacks.
- favorite dish: chicken
- make my favorite dish
- bring their favorite dish
So you're suffering And then when it's time to eat, finally you're about to eat your favorite dish, it's going to taste so much better.
- So you're suffering And then when it's time to eat, finally you're about to eat your favorite dish, it's going to taste so much better.
- I will say at the Thanksgiving table, this is my least favorite dish.
- Binge watch TV, take a walk, play with a pet, cook a favorite dish, eat a favorite food, work in the garden.
Examples
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My favorite dish is haggis.
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So this week we made Turkey chili, one of my favorite dishes in the whole wide world.
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You go to a restaurant and you know, you want your favorite dish from that restaurant.
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Perhaps instead of cooking a large family dinner, have everyone bring their favorite dish.
Blog text (27) -
Mrs. Adams, this is my favorite dish.
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But I think my favorite dish is Hungarian goulash.
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Spicy oven-fried chicken is her favorite dish.
Fiction book (1997) -
Mushroom Stroganoff is my favorite dish.
Blog text (20) -
I love that you're making your husband's favorite dish—a nice tradition to have.
Blog text (17) -
My favorite dish is spaghetti carbonara.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a particular meal someone enjoys most' is directly derivable from combining 'favorite' (particularly liked) with 'dish' (a cooked item), following straightforward adjectival modification. This simple compositional pattern is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
The phrase favorite dish puts together favorite, meaning the thing you like most, and dish, meaning a food on a plate. Picture a family table where you always reach for the same plate — that image explains why it means 'a meal you enjoy more than any other'.