Sentence examples for down the platter from inspiring English sources
The redheaded waitress threw her hands on her apron, in great consternation that I was wandering in the dark, put down the platter she was serving, and drove me to the other restaurant.
Then he went to the grill, set down the platter of chicken and sausage and the fat red oblong slab of fish, and lifted the heavy iron lid, half hoping there'd be another rat in there — or a snake, a snake would be even better.
Something has to be done to stop the next generation of famouses from turning out to be a bit, you know, naff – coming, as they all do, from childhoods where the only true experience of hunger is when Karl Lagerfeld hovers into view at a party, hissing at you to put down the sushi platter in case you get fat.
Tellers is not the haunt of gruff servers who slap down the platters.
You can't imagine how these scenes, where we threw down the table and the platters of a sumptuous banquet, were shocking in a country where people waited on line for hours in front of grocery stores.
At my family's Yom Kippur break fast this year, smokier, leaner wild western nova from the Pacific was beat out by the mild and richer Gaspe nova from the Atlantic, which disappeared almost as soon as I set the platter down.
He packed the sugar down around the rim of the platter, like snow, then drew his finger through it for added effect.
Writing in Esquire in 1983, he merrily labeled his feminist detractors "brie brains" and "spit dribblers" before tossing off this memorable line: "Even now, far up in the wilderness in my cabin, where I just shot a lamprey passing upstream with my Magnum, I wouldn't have the heart to turn down a platter of hot buttered cheerleaders".
Last, place the platter between the folds of the tablecoth, and lay it face down on top of the box.
On one "pancake night" in the down-at-heels Joyce household, all four brothers simultaneously dove for the last pancake on the platter.
