| 词汇 | white-bread |
| 释义 | white bread noun[ U ] uk /ˌwaɪt ˈbred/ us /ˈwaɪt ˌbred/ white breadnoun[U] (FOOD)bread that is light in colour, made with flour from grains that have had the bran(= the outer covering) and wheatgerm(= the central part) removed: The soup was served with white bread. I spread some peanut butter on a slice of white bread. Compare brown bread wholemeal bread wholewheat bread The sandwich consisted of two thin slices of ham on buttered white bread. I tried to improve my diet by eating wholegrain bread and high-fibre cereals instead of potatoes and white bread. He eats white bread and very little in the way of fruit or vegetables. Bread Anadama bread arepa bagel baguette bannock corn bread corn pone cottage loaf crouton crumb johnnycake kaiser roll lardy cake loaf loaves rye bread sippet sliced bread soda bread spoon bread white breadnoun[U] (BORING)USinformal sometimes offensive something or someone that is boring, with no exciting or unusual features (sometimes used to refer to the culture of white Americans): He considered the candidates to be stale white bread. If you tell someone they are white bread, they will consider it an insult. In his part of the show, the actor proves that even white bread can be charismatic. When I walked down the street, people would call me white bread or whitey. Is it considered racist to call a white person "white bread"? People who are boring and old-fashioned bore buzzkill Colonel Blimp crashing bore dinosaur drip fogey fun sponge grind has-been killjoy Luddite normcore saddo spod spoilsport square stick-in-the-mud stuffed shirt yawn white bread adjective (alsowhite-bread)uk /ˌwaɪt ˈbred/ us /ˈwaɪt ˌbred/ USinformal sometimes offensive boring, with no exciting or unusual features (sometimes used to refer to the culture of white Americans): She said that music for children doesn't have to be white bread and boring. My family was very white-bread, middle-class, Anglo-Saxon. The area was often thought of as being more middle class, whiter, more white bread than the rest of the country. She said that she had always thought that she was too white bread to play the role of Carmen. His ideas are very white bread. The band was an even more white-bread version of a musical style that was already mainstream. Tedious and uninspiring (as) dull as ditchwateridiom anonymous banal banally basic marginal marmoreal meh menial menially staid staidly stale staleness stodgily viewless watch paint dryidiom watch the clockidiom wearisome wearisomely You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Boredom, tedium and boring things |
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