potluck 成语

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covered-dish supper|covered-dish|potluck|potluck s

A meal to which each guest brings a share of the food. Dolly made a chicken casserole for the covered-dish supper.

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take potluck|potluck|take

v. phr. To share as a guest an everyday meal without special preparation. You are welcome to stay for dinner if you will take potluck. They were about to have lunch when he phoned and they asked him to take potluck with them.

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potluck

potluck
see take potluck.

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take potluck

take potluck
Come to eat whatever happens to be served; also, take one's chances. For example, You're welcome to join us for supper but you'll have to take potluck, or When the flight was canceled, passengers had to take potluck on other airlines. This idiom alludes to accepting whatever happens to be in the cooking pot. [Second half of 1700s]