bacon-and-eggs
Britishnoun
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The earthy decor of salvaged wood and lamps hanging from scraps of rope makes clear that this isn’t your typical American bacon-and-eggs joint.
From The Guardian
The first couple prefers entertaining at Mar-a-Lago, President Trump’s resort in Palm Beach, Fla. Mr. Trump, a bacon-and-eggs man who likes his steaks well done and perceives fast food as both efficient and sanitary, takes some of his meals in the White House mess, a small staff dining hall near the Situation Room in the West Wing.
From New York Times
In the popular imagination at home they are the bacon-and-eggs brigade: witness “Benidorm”, a cheesy television comedy about ageing, lobster-skinned dipsomaniacs on the Spanish Costas.
From Economist
Chile oil makes the eggs in hell a more engaging bacon-and-eggs than the carbonara pizza, a special whose four cheeses melded into a single, not very interesting white blanket.
From New York Times
BST05:18 Bacon-and-eggs latest: MCC members wait in the queue for the gates to open before the second Ashes Test between England and Australia.
From The Guardian
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