ham and eggs
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1.0
- noun
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huevos con jamón
- In the morning, Angie washes dishes as Bramble eats a ham and egg breakfast.
- a ham and eggs breakfast
- ate the ham and eggs
The best example of this that I could share with you is on a plate of ham and eggs.
- The best example of this that I could share with you is on a plate of ham and eggs.
Examples
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I hope the ham and eggs are better than the coffee.
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I never saw ham and eggs disappear so quickly.
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Be kind enough to order me some ham and eggs.
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We got a special on the ham and eggs.
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But what about our ham and eggs?
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"Any chance of something simple, like ham and eggs?"
Fiction book (1996) -
All I need now is a good large plate of ham and eggs.
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They go together like ham and eggs.
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Benson sat by the fire and watched Konrad cook country ham and eggs in an iron skillet.
Fiction book (2001) -
I ordered a delicious plate of ham and eggs for breakfast.
How Filling
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'ham' + 'and' + 'eggs' denotes a dish combining those two ingredients, so a B1 learner who knows the words will infer it refers to a meal of ham served with eggs. This naming pattern is cross-linguistically common for simple food combinations, so the expression is immediately understandable despite minor cultural variations in preparation.
Etymology
Ham and eggs comes from a very plain breakfast plate: slices of ham served next to fried or scrambled eggs. Because this simple, filling meal was so common, the name came to mean that exact 'breakfast' today.