Sentence examples for my cabbage from inspiring English sources

Why do we so often call our loves "my cabbage" (French) or "little fish" (Russian) instead of simply their given names, or even the more literal honorifics like "wife," "boyfriend," or "beloved"?

"I walk over there every day for my collard greens, my broccoli, my cabbage," said Ms. Hudson, the president of the Parkside Association of Philadelphia, a neighborhood group.

In particular there were vivid expressions of female sexuality - as Sippie Wallace sang how she was 'A Mighty Tight Woman', and Maggie Jones wondered 'Anybody Here Want to Try My Cabbage ?' And blues singers didn't just talk the talk.

Translation: My cabbage.

Perhaps I was just looking for a way to wow you by namedropping my Cabbage Patch Kid collection?

I would consult with my patients (my Cabbage Patch doll, Tabitha, had a host of curable ailments for me to tackle) and then perform procedures on them to get them on the path to miraculous healing.

Let death take me as I am, wrote Montaigne, planting my cabbages.

As for himself, Montaigne wrote, "I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden".

How one relishes Montaigne's words: "I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden".

The latter means, literally, "my little cabbage".

"Get stuffed, Holland, my Savoy cabbage is coming from Vermont".