pot roast
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- noun
- /pɑt roʊst/
- US
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- The next night at dinner, Mother served pot roast with steamed carrots and potatoes.
- pot roast with potatoes
- beef pot roast
- pot roast for dinner
started to try to express boundaries literally like mom cooks a, you know, a pot, pot roast dinner and you cross your arms. You're like, you know, mom,
- started to try to express boundaries literally like mom cooks a, you know, a pot, pot roast dinner and you cross your arms. You're like, you know, mom,
Examples
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For dinner, I prepared a delicious pot roast that was slow-cooked to perfection.
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She'd invite Pete for dinner, a big pot roast with potatoes and carrots and lots of gravy.
Fiction book (1994) -
How to know when pot roast is done?
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Do I smell pot roast?
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At the least, she would have made a big pot roast and brought it over.
Fiction book (1990) -
Ginger had made pot roast for supper.
Fiction book (1997) -
This pot roast is excellent, Mrs. Nichols.
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My father forked another slab of pot roast onto his plate.
Fiction book (2001) -
Hope you don't think I'm being presumptuous, but I thought you gals looked like you'd enjoy some pot roast.
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I was raised in the Northeast with Yankee pot roast, rutabagas, split pea soup, parsnips, rye bread, and bagels.
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Morphology
A B1 learner who knows 'pot' (a cooking vessel) and 'roast' (a cut of meat or meat cooked by dry heat) can readily infer 'pot roast' as a roast prepared in a pot—i.e. a large piece of meat cooked slowly in a pot. The compositional cooking-terminology pattern is straightforward and cross-linguistically common, so the meaning is transparently derived from the constituents.
Etymology
Pot roast comes from a simple cooking image: a large roast slow-cooked in a covered pot with liquid and vegetables until very tender. So it now means 'a large piece of meat cooked slowly in a pot until tender'.