Meaning of steak-and-kidney pie | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [B2]

Examples

“The only time I can remember Harry to have spoken really unkindly to me was when we had a badly-made steak-and-kidney pie for dinner, and he wasn’t very well after it, and that made him tetchy and irritable, a most unusual thing for him, and he was quite nasty with me and lost his temper over a trifle that, if the steak-and-kidney pie had been all right, he would only have laughed at.”

“The steak-and-kidney pie got burnt and the pie-dish was cracked right across . . .”

“TRUE, the Americans carry their passion for iced drinks to dyspeptic lengths. But there seems no reason why, in the centre of the world’s greatest city yesterday—the hottest day of the year—there should have been such a lavish display of lukewarm beer, tepid salads and steak-and-kidney pie. Even the most despised Continental pocket-country is able to keep its food fresh and cool.”

“Mr. Coombes’s department then moved to a fried-egg sandwich containing rodent pellets, and two steak-and-kidney pies filled with a “mush” of meat and gravy for ease of filling during manufacture.”

“Picnic on the Victoria Embankment on the Thames with carryout steak-and-kidney pies, pates, salmon or roe from the food halls at Fortnum & Mason in Piccadilly Street or Harrods department store in Knightsbridge.”

“Tasty snacks, like filled potatoes, steak-and-kidney pies and toasted sandwiches, are available.”

“It sells like schnitzel or steak-and-kidney pie in other countries, but will it ever sell like hotcakes here? […] The rest of the world knows it and has gobbled up the Freelander like it’s hot schnitzel or steak-and-kidney pie.”

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