Meaning of Dagwood sandwich | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An exceptionally thick sandwich made with numerous layers of various meats, cheeses, vegetables, and condiments.
   informal
2. A thick stack of flat objects or a complicated melange of diverse components or ingredients.
   broadly, figuratively

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Examples

“The kind of sandwich he made famous, the Dagwood sandwich, is a hodgepodge of leftovers in the refrigerator all wedged in between two slices of bread.”

“Everyone gets the late-night munchies now and then, whether for rocky road ice cream or a Dagwood sandwich of salami, pickles and deli Swiss on rye.”

“And who wouldn't like to think of the Dagwood sandwich somewhere on the White House menu?”

“As one of Groucho Marx's writers told it: an unemployed actor was interrupted at breakfast by his wife carrying a Dagwood sandwich of unpaid bills.”

“[T]o use the full 512K theoretically available, one will have a computer carrying a Dagwood sandwich of expansion attachments on one of its sides.”

“Today’s Morning Jolt is just a Dagwood sandwich of bad news for Obamacare, piled higher and higher.”

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