Смысл: casserole cookery

casserole cookery[ʹkæs(ə)rəʋlʹkʋk(ə)rı]
<Í> приготовление и подача пищи в горшочках

cook Идиома

chief cook and bottle washer

manager, supervisor Hal is the chief cook and bottle washer for our school supper.

cook

play good jazz, play music with skill and inspiration The Boss Brass was cookin' last night. What a great band!

cook one

destroy one

cook the books

illegally change information in accounting books in a company The accountant was cooking the books for over a year before he was caught.

cook your goose

finish you, ruin you, goose is cooked If you borrow too much money, you'll cook your goose.

goose is cooked

chance is gone, plan has failed, game over If we don't win this game, our goose is cooked.

that's the way the cookie crumbles

that is fate, that is the way things happen You didn't win the prize? That's the way the cookie crumbles.

too many cooks spoil the broth

too many managers cause problems, too many chiefs... The structure failed because it was designed by a group of architects. Too many cooks spoil the broth.

what's cooking

what is happening, what's going down What's cooking with the kids? They're too quiet.

woof your cookies

vomit, puke, barf, hork If you eat bananas, anchovies and cheese, you'll woof your cookies.

your goose is cooked

(See goose is cooked)

chunk one's cookies

to vomit

cook with gas

to succeed, to proceed well:"After a beer, the work went well. We were cooking with gas"

cookie cutter boys

the guys who travel in packs of 8-12, have that fade haircut (like Ross on Friends) and wear Ambercrombie and Fitch or American Eagle everything:"The quad is full of cookie cutter boys today"

cook up

1．prepare by cooking quickly 匆匆烹调
She cooked up an omelette and chips when he arrived unexpectedly．当他出乎意料地到来时，她很快就做好了一个炒鸡蛋和油煎土豆片。
2．invent；devise；concoct 造出；想出；捏造；虚构
The absentee cooked up some excuse about being ill．那位缺席者编造了一个有病的借口。
I don't like cooking up stories just to help you out of a difficult situation．我不愿为你摆脱困境而虚构事实。

toss one's cookies

Idiom(s): toss one's cookies

Theme: VOMIT

to vomit. (Slang.)
• Don't run too fast after you eat or you'll toss your cookies.
• Oh, I feel terrible. I think I'm going to toss my cookies.

Too many cooks spoil the stew

Idiom(s): Too many cooks spoil the stew, AND Too many cooks spoil the broth

Theme: CONTROL

A proverb meaning that too many people trying to manage something simply spoil it.
• Let's decide who is in charge around here. Too many cooks spoil the stew.
• Everyone is giving orders, but no one is following them! Too many cooks spoil the broth.

juice and cookies

Idiom(s): juice and cookies

Theme: FOOD

trivial and uninteresting snacks or refreshments. (Fixed order.)
• The party was not much. They might as well have served juice and cookies.
• After juice and cookies, we all went back into the meeting room for another hour of talk, talk, talk.

cooking with gas

Idiom(s): cooking with gas

Theme: CORRECTNESS

doing things the right way. (Informal. From an advertising slogan.)
• That's great. Now you're cooking with gas.
• Things are moving along nicely with the project. The entire staff is really cooking with gas.

cook the accounts

Idiom(s): cook the accounts

Theme: ACCOUNTING

to cheat in bookkeeping; to make the accounts appear to balance when they do not.
• Jane was sent to jail for cooking the accounts of her mother's store.
• It's hard to tell whether she really cooked the accounts or just didn't know how to add.

cook sth up

Idiom(s): cook sth up

Theme: INTENTIONS

to plot something; to improvise something.
• Mary cooked an interesting party up at the last minute.
• Let me see if I can cook up a way to get you some money.

cook one's goose

Idiom(s): cook one's goose

Theme: RUIN

to damage or ruin someone.
• I cooked my own goose by not showing up on time.
• Sally cooked Bob's goose for treating her the way he did.

blow one's cookies

Idiom(s): blow one's lunch AND blow one's cookies

Theme: VOMIT

to vomit. (Slang.)
• The accident was so horrible I almost blew my lunch.
• Don't run so hard, or you'll blow your cookies.

Too many cooks spoil the broth.

If too many people are involved in something, it will not be done properly.

Caught with your hand in the cookie jar

(USA) If someone is caught with his or her hand in the cookie jar, he or she is caught doing something wrong.

Cook someone's goose

If you cook someone's goose, you ruin their plans.

Cook up a storm

If someone cooks up a storm, they cause a big fuss or generate a lot of talk about something.

Sharp cookie

Someone who isn't easily deceived or fooled is a sharp cookie.

That is the way the cookie crumbles

"That's the way the cookie crumbles" means that things don't always turn out the way we want.

Tough cookie

A tough cookie is a person who will do everything necessary to achieve what they want.

What's cooking?

When you ask what's cooking it means you want to know what's happening.

the way the cookie crumbles

the way things are: "I'm sorry I didn't get the promotion, but that's the way the cookie crumbles."

cook one's goose|cook|goose

v. phr., slang To ruin someone hopelessly; destroy one's future expectations or good name. The bank treasurer cooked his own goose when he stole the bank's funds. She cooked John's goose by reporting what she knew to the police. The dishonest official knew his goose was cooked when the newspapers printed the story about him.

cook up|cook

v., informal To plan and put together; make up; invent. The boys cooked up an excuse to explain their absence from school.

short-order cook|cook|order|short|short-order

n. A person who prepares food that cooks quickly. Bruce found a summer job as a short-order cook in a drive-in restaurant. The new diner needs another short-order cook.
Compare: SLING HASH.

that's how the cookie crumbles|cookie|crumble|crum

v. phr., informal That's how things are; that's life. It's too bad about John and Mary getting divorced, but then that's how the cookie crumbles.

too many cooks spoil the broth|broth|cooks|spoil|s

A project is likely to go bad if managed by a multiplicity of primary movers.

A proverb. When several people acted all at once in trying to reshape the company's investment policy, Tom spoke up and said, "Let me do this by myself! Don't you know that too many cooks spoil the broth?"

tough cookie|cookie|tough

n. phr. An extremely determined, hardheaded person, or someone with whom it is unusually difficult to deal. Marjorie is a very pretty girl, but when it comes to business she sure is one tough cookie.

what's up|cooking|doing|up|what's cooking|what's d

slang What is happening or planned; what is wrong.

Often used as a greeting. "What's up?" asked Bob as he joined his friends. "Are you going to the movies?" What's cooking? Why is the crowd in the street? What's doing tonight at the club? Hello Bob, what's up?
Compare: WHAT'S WITH.

chief cook and bottlewasher

chief cook and bottlewasher
A person in charge of numerous duties, both vital and trivial, as in We have no secretaries or clerks; the department head is chief cook and bottlewasher and does it all. [Slang; c. 1840]

cookie

cookie
see hand in the till, with one's; that's how the ball bounces; toss one's cookies.