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Fixed phrase of two or more conventionally joined words

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[–] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Mmm cheese and mac. Let's be real, the cheese is the main attraction.

[–] als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

It's the classic carb and fat combo

[–] porcelainpitcher@lemmy.today 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

There's protein in pasta & cheese! 😋

Edit: admittedly, probably not much in the box. But if you made it yourself, well!

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

Aka a "binomial irreversible"

[–] toad@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 day ago

I'm definitely going to start reversing these to fuck with people.

[–] Whelks_chance@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

In the UK it's always knife and fork, but I'm sure I've heard Americans say fork and knife. I may be wrong.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I’m from the US and I say fork and knife more often, but both work.

Edit: now that I think of it, my mother and grandmother only said “knife and fork.” Maybe it’s slowly becoming uncoupled in American English

[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

In the lyrics to the Beatles’ song Piggies, there’s the line “clutching forks and knives”. Is that just an Americanism they picked up?

[–] Drusas@fedia.io -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It is usually "fork and knife" in the US.

[–] toast@retrolemmy.com 2 points 15 hours ago

Not in my experience

[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fried ham, fried ham
Cheese and baloney
And after the macaroni
We will have fried ham.

[–] darksecret@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 hours ago

Welcome back Wordsworth