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French-fried potato
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English
Noun
en noun
en French-fried potatoes
en The Libertarian 1924 541 Rather than eat a home-cooked steak she preferred one French-fried potato in a restaurant Only one.
en Temple Dental Review and Garretsonian 1937 39 Travels of a French-fried potato: In your mouth a few minutes; in your stomach a few hours; on your hips for the rest of your life.
en w:Shirley Jackson Laurence Jackson Hyman; Sarah Hyman DeWitt In Praise of Dinner Table Silence Let Me Tell You: New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings w:Random House a. 1965 2015 section IV (Somehow Things Haven’t Turned Out Quite the Way We Expected: Humor and Family) 324 978-0-8129-9767-5 A very small child, dawdling and playing and telling endless, giggling stories, can string out one French-fried potato until he is permitted—with some shrillness and a certain involuntary clenching of fists—to be excused from the rest of his dinner.
en Marcia Seligson Cosmopolitan’s Super Diets & Exercise Guide New York, N.Y. Cosmopolitan Books 1973 202 0-87851-104-0 A modest spoonful of rice pudding, 25, one French-fried potato (2 by ½ by ½ inches), 19½.
en Robert Lockwood Lacking Intelligence A Dragon Defanged w:Xlibris 2012 171 978-1-4797-4384-1 Yehuda forked a French-fried potato into his mouth, as the steward arrived with the ketchup.