| 单词 | shit on a shingle |
| 释义 | > as lemmasshit on a shingle P8. Originally and chiefly U.S. Military. shit on a shingle: a dish of previously cooked meat, typically beef, cut up into small pieces and served with gravy on toast; (more generally) any similar type of dish considered to be unappetizing; abbreviated S.O.S. ΚΠ 1935 Cleveland (Ohio) Plain Dealer 13 Oct. 4/7 Among the common names for items on the menu are:..‘slush-on-a-shingle’ (creamed dried beef on toast), ‘blanched worms’ (spaghetti or macaroni), ‘dishwater’ (coffee).] 1939 J. Jones Let. Dec. in To reach Eternity (1989) 4 Shit on a shingle..is..a rubbery piece of toast covered with a thick gravy composed of the leavings of yesterday's dinner. 1939 Amer. Speech 14 30/1 Shit on shingles: roast-beef hash on toast. 1958 T. Berger Crazy in Berlin 135 Chow was SOS, Shit-on-a-shingle, ground beef and gravy slopped across a slice of bread. 1979 G. Hasford Short-Timers 53 We retreat to the Marine mess hall where we eat shit-on-a-shingle and drink lukewarm Kool-Aid. 2006 New Yorker 25 Dec. 112/1 Audie had even stopped teasing the waiters about the food, had stopped calling the uttapam ‘shit on a shingle’. < as lemmas |
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