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Idiom
Make a meal.
If someone makes a meal of something, they spend too long doing it or make it look more difficult than it really is.
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I could make a meal of them.
I could make a meal of Mr. Nanneti's appetizers.
You could make a meal of soups and appetizers like these.
One stuffed with tender chunks of beef and vegetables ($9) could make a meal for an adult.
She loved going to the cinema, aimed to read a book a day, hated to waste time sleeping and could make a meal of a packet of bacon.
I could make a meal of a Ligurian salad of marinated tuna with potatoes, green beans, red onions and greens ($6.95), nearly a dead ringer for salade niçoise.
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"I could make a whole meal of little lettuce hearts and buttermilk," she wrote.
For example, you could make a perfect meal for two from two dishes, one meat and the other greens.
So long as a recipe made sense and our readers could make a delicious meal by following it, that was that.
You could make a full meal of appetizers, but you would miss the excellent main courses like braised lamb with a spicy yogurt-and-sesame sauce and cubes of toasted pita, and chicken ouzi, an untraditional version of a traditional Syrian dish that adds a mild curry to the typical mixture of rice, peas and raisins cooked in phyllo.
These raviolis and a plain green salad vinaigrette could make a very satisfying meal — as would the penne tossed with crumbled sweet sausage and a shot of cream.
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