英语词汇“on the kitchen front”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

kitchen front n. British esp. during the Second World War (1939–45): cooking, nutrition, and home economics, perceived as part of a wider public contribution to the war effort. Chiefly with the and in on the kitchen front: in the kitchen, in cooking.Originally used as part of a Ministry of Food campaign promoting the economical use of food rations launched by Lord Woolton on 5 April 1940 (cf. quot. 1940 and see Woolton n.), this expression was further popularized as the name of a radio series on the BBC Home Service aimed at housewives, which ran from June of that year until 1944.

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1940 Times 6 Apr. 8/3 I am going to venture at the outset of my work to call on the women of England to mobilize themselves on the Kitchen Front.

1945 D. Thomas Let. 30 July (1987) 560 And back to a cardtable holding up a jamjar full of cigarette-ends, the rough draft of a ten minute film on the Kitchen Front, your War Poetry anthology, [etc.]

2015 L. Lane Wartime Sweethearts xv. 178 Be frugal and remember that every morsel wasted on the kitchen front means wasted space in ships.

单词	on the kitchen front
释义	> as lemmas on the kitchen front kitchen front n. British esp. during the Second World War (1939–45): cooking, nutrition, and home economics, perceived as part of a wider public contribution to the war effort. Chiefly with the and in on the kitchen front: in the kitchen, in cooking.Originally used as part of a Ministry of Food campaign promoting the economical use of food rations launched by Lord Woolton on 5 April 1940 (cf. quot. 1940 and see Woolton n.), this expression was further popularized as the name of a radio series on the BBC Home Service aimed at housewives, which ran from June of that year until 1944. ΚΠ 1940 Times 6 Apr. 8/3 I am going to venture at the outset of my work to call on the women of England to mobilize themselves on the Kitchen Front. 1945 D. Thomas Let. 30 July (1987) 560 And back to a cardtable holding up a jamjar full of cigarette-ends, the rough draft of a ten minute film on the Kitchen Front, your War Poetry anthology, [etc.] 2015 L. Lane Wartime Sweethearts xv. 178 Be frugal and remember that every morsel wasted on the kitchen front means wasted space in ships. extracted from kitchenn.¹ < as lemmas
随便看	on the tape on the tapis on the telephone on the television on the telly on the tiddley on the tiles on the tilt on the tinny luck on the tins on the tip of one's tongue on the tittup on the toboggan on the toddle on the toot on the top line on the top of on the top shelf on the touchlines on the town on the track on the track of on the tramp on the traverse on the tribute system

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