| 单词 | devil on the coals |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdevil on the coals devil on the coals n. Australian colloquial a type of unleavened bread baked in hot ashes; cf. damper n. 6. ΚΠ 1853 Hobart Town Courier 20 Aug. Les diables sur candres [read cendres] à l'Australie, or devils on the coals, were pronounced exquisite by the aristocratic gourmands. 1862 A. Polehampton Kangaroo Land 77 Instead of damper we occasionally made what is colonially known as ‘devils on the coals’. 1934 Adelaide Chron. 12 July 8/3 Another sort of bread, used much by people travelling, and needing something that would cook quickly, were ‘Johnny Cakes’, or ‘devils on the coals’. 1999 R. Annear Nothing but Gold viii. 107 For a quick breakfast on the road, or for a taste of the exotic without resorting to bear grease, there were ‘devils on the coals’. < as lemmas |
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