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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a set of steak" is not correct in standard English usage.
The correct expression would typically refer to "a set of steaks" if multiple pieces of steak are being discussed.
Example: "For the barbecue, I bought a set of steaks to grill for everyone."
Alternatives: "a collection of steaks" or "a group of steaks."
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Second prize, a set of steak knives.
"Second prize is a set of steak knives.... Third prize is you're fired".
Don't say: "Chuck in a set of steak knives and I'm in".
Second prize is a set of steak knives, and third prize is you're fired".
On opening night, someone gave me a set of steak knives with a card that read, "Kill them all!" I thought that pretty much summed it up.
To the victor in this Darwinian struggle goes a Cadillac and the best leads; to the runner-up a set of steak knives; the rest can go home.
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At Parsons she made one of her first electronic craft projects:a set of plush steaks embedded with LEDs.
I can understand why the secretly alcoholic soccer moms or the sex-addict Pennsyltucky rubes don't want to be caught dead with their bottles of booze and their vibrating, Chinese-made phalluses, but I can't figure out the presence of things like discarded orthotics or a set of rusted steak knives.
They'd have been bailed out by lunch and given a free set of steak knives as an extra gift.
The unspoken running gag of Steve Johnson's Mr. Eaux character (who "met W&J while selling them a set of walnut handled steak knives from the trunk of his El Dorado," the show's website says) is that black issues are merely a cudgel that African Americans use to gain pity or free "Obama phones".
First prize was a Cadillac Eldorado, second prize was set of steak knives, and third prize was "you're fired".
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