What does corn beef mean?
Corn beef means Alternative form of corn beef..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Alternative form of corn beef..
But lifting his hands to high heaven, he vociferously swore, / By his hopes of an increased household, and by the nine gods of yore, / If e’er in moment propitious, again he should strive to treat / The crowd then around him to fatten on tipple and meat, / Into a Chatham street café would be his judicious “steer,” / To fill them with cornbeef sandwiches, washed down by “schooners” of beer.
She stood in the kitchen now, regarding the well-browned cornbeef hash without enthusiasm, and then she turned off the light under the pan. Anyway, she was not hungry, and she hated to eat alone, and she was as bored with cornbeef hash as she was with cornbeef sandwiches and pizza pie.
Charlie, there’s one of Genny’s needlepoints in the kitchen, ‘Down with cornbeef pie.’
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Corn beef means Alternative form of corn beef..
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But lifting his hands to high heaven, he vociferously swore, / By his hopes of an increased household, and by the nine gods of yore, / If e’er in moment propitious, again he should strive to treat / The crowd then around him to fatten on tipple and meat, / Into a Chatham street café would be his judicious “steer,” / To fill them with cornbeef sandwiches, washed down by “schooners” of beer.
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