bacon-and-eggs
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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 • Feb. 16, 2016
After posing for press photographs with his visitor, the President ushered him inside for a bacon-and-eggs breakfast, necessarily hurried because Kubitschek was due in Washington at 1 p.m. to address the U.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
The answer came clear when, after a bacon-and-eggs breakfast, Khrushchev encountered De Gaulle in Rambouillet's 16th century Hall of Marble.
From Time Magazine Archive
And nothing cures a hangover better than a big, greasy bacon-and-eggs breakfast.
From Time Magazine Archive
“And she should be. You could still use your bacon-and-eggs cipher. Just submit a different encrypted message tomorrow.”
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
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