| 单词 | potatoes and point |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspotatoes and point b. Chiefly Irish English (humorous). The action of pointing at a superior but unattainable food. Chiefly in potatoes and point: a meal of potatoes alone. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating specific substances or food > [noun] > eating potatoes only potatoes and point1793 1793 Northern Star (Belfast) 16 Jan. 1/3 How could any of you, whose benevolence should be extensive as the habitations of Man, behold two thirds of your Conntrymen, miserable, oppressed and naked, literally feeding on potatoes and point. 1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan I. 75 The potatoes and point of an Irish peasant. 1847 J. Keegan in Dolman's Mag. Mar. 229 He never asked or wished for a better breakfast than ‘potatoes and point’. 1896 Yorkshire Weekly Post 28 Nov. 6/2 ‘What are we bahn to hae for dinner, mother?’..‘Nowght but potatoes an' point’. 1907 N.E.D. (at cited word) Bread or potatoes and point, the action of merely pointing or looking at the relish, such as cheese, bacon, fish, etc., and making one's meal of bread or potatoes only. 1931 F. Harris Bernard Shaw 13 If the money arrived it meant a cooked herring and potatoes dipped in the sauce. If it didn't it meant a dinner of potatoes and ‘point’, for one had to be satisfied with just pointing a potato at an imaginary herring. 1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 200/1 Potatoes and point, a meal of potatoes only. < as lemmas |
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