fish and chips
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- noun
- /fɪʃ ənd tʃɪps/
- UK
:
pescado rebozado con patatas fritas
- We ordered fish and chips from the local takeaway for dinner last night.
- eat fish and chips
- fish and chips shop
- fish and chips at the pub
Tonight we're going to have fish and chips with some family.
- Tonight we're going to have fish and chips with some family.
- We are two for two on delicious fish and chips in Ireland.
- They call them chippers back home because they they sell fries like fish and chips, you know?
- We'd go there, spend an entire day there jumping in and out of the water and eating fish and chips.
- Ice cream couldn't afford it, fish and chips couldn't afford it.
Examples
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Man, I want to go grab some fish and chips for dinner tonight.
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Tonight we're going to have fish and chips with some family.
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And as you can see, we all got fish and chips, which was a treat.
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Then we'll get some fish and chips.
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We are two for two on delicious fish and chips in Ireland.
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I fancy some fish and chips, to be honest.
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I ate fish and chips every day.
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OK, Evan, this is the famous fish and chips that you ordered.
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But there's a fish and chips shop downstairs.
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There is the Rock and Sole Place for fish and chips slightly north of Covent Garden.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally built from the known constituents 'fish' (the food) + 'and' (joining) + 'chips' (fried potatoes), so a learner who knows those words will infer it denotes a dish of fish served with chips. This food combination is transparent and cross-linguistically common (many languages have equivalent ‘fish + potatoes’ dishes), so it is immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Fish and chips comes from 1800s Britain, when hot fried fish and fried potato chips were sold together as a cheap meal, often wrapped in paper to eat by the sea or taken home as a 'takeaway'. That's why the name now means the hot dish of fried fish and fried potatoes people buy to eat out or at home.