| 单词 | sunny side up |
| 释义 | > as lemmassunny side up Phrases P1. on the sunny side of (thirty, forty, etc.): on the right side of, younger than (the specified age); cf. on the shady side of at shady adj. 2b. ΚΠ 1827 N.-Y. Spectator 28 Dec. We have to protest against the fashionable cloaks, in all cases where the figure is tolerable, and the wearer on the sunny side of forty. 1865 Atlantic Monthly 15 711 How many of us,..on the sunny side of thirty, have gone through the ‘Paradise Lost’? 1927 E. Wallace Ringer i. 5 Alan Wembury was on the sunny side of thirty. 2011 S. Woods Fisher Amish Values for your Family iii. 113 Tommy and Nathan, both on the sunny side of twenty, decided to play a trick on the schoolteacher. P2. Originally U.S. sunny side up. a. Of an egg: fried on one side only, and served with the yolk uppermost. Frequently as postmodifier. Also (and in earliest use) as noun: such an egg or eggs. Cf. sunny side down at Phrases 3.Originally in the slang of restaurant workers. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > egg dishes > [adjective] > (of fried eggs) prepared in a specific way sunny side up1887 sunny side down1916 over easy1930 1887 Daily Jrnl. (Freeport, Illinois) 16 Mar. Two eggs fried on one side are transformed into ‘sunny side up’. 1887 Evening Gaz. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) 6 Sept. 1/5 [Restaurant slang.] Pair o' white wings, sunny side up! 1927 Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune 21 June 6/1 They relished now and then an order of ham and sunny side up, a good cup of Java and a side of home fries. 1948 Royal Air Force Rev. Jan. 20/2 It's whizzo when you get a fried egg sunny-side-up for tea. 1979 R. Fiennes Hell on Ice iii. 32 Ginnie ladled her sunny-side-up eggs with semolina. 2007 Pittsburgh (Pa.) Tribune Rev. (Nexis) 24 July Tarte Flambee..is a popular dish of smoked salmon, dill-whipped ricotta, leeks, asparagus and eggs sunny side up. b. figurative. Cheerful, optimistic. Cf. sunny adj. 4. ΚΠ 1899 North Amer. (Philadelphia) 30 May A handsome, big, overgrown boy, with..a nature that was always sunny side up. 1953 A. Christie After the Funeral xii. 101 Worried, bad-tempered and irritable in the office. But since his uncle's death that's all changed. He's like the breakfast eggs (if we had 'em). Sunny side up! 1971 Madison (Wisconsin) State Jrnl. 27 Feb. Linda Eustice had the difficult task of playing the only heavy in a sunny-side-up story. 1998 Atlanta Jrnl. & Constit. (Nexis) 18 Sept. 7 p A lifelong homemaker whose sunny-side-up attitude Ellen sees as pre-feminist, blinkered denial. 2015 R. D. Putnam Our Kids ii. 49 Andrew, a loquacious and sunny-side-up college sophomore whose family lives in a sprawling home. P3. Originally U.S. sunny side down: (of an egg) fried on both sides; over easy. Chiefly as postmodifier. Cf. Phrases 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > egg dishes > [adjective] > (of fried eggs) prepared in a specific way sunny side up1887 sunny side down1916 over easy1930 1916 J. Forbes Commuters i. 16 Two on the pan, sunny side up or sunny side down? 1932 Hamilton (Ohio) Evening Jrnl. 19 Mar. Thirty fried eggs (sunny-side down) went..very fast, and soon breakfast became but a pleasant memory. 2016 Loughborough Echo (Nexis) 3 Aug. 16 I love fried egg and chips... I always have to flip the egg over because I like them sunny side down. < as lemmas |
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