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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
To eat off another man's plate. [To live an another's expense.]
If I feel like I am about to explode, I take a minute to evaluate what it is that I have on my plate, make a to-do list, and start tackling what I need to do, one step at a time.
Don't even wait until you've lost a pound. The minute you can push the plate away with food still on it, give yourself a pat on the back.
Your new CD is a weed plate, nothin' but love songs,
100% pure garbage, just something to break up buds on.
With 'Black Panther,' it was like stepping up to the plate, working crazy hours, and still bringing your best to the table every time.
There are persons who always find a hair in their plate of soup for the simple reason that, when they sit down before it, they shake their heads until one falls in.
You have to take care of yourself so you can manage the workload of a very, very full plate.
The phrase 'blue plate special' has always been one of the homiest, coziest, most sweetly nostalgic phrases in the English language for me.
I don't just want the belt, I want every one of their heads on a plate.
He stopped everything behind the plate and hit everything in front of it.
I don't mind beetroot on a plate. I don't mind it with part of a dinner. But it's not my choice to drink out of a cup.
People making it like I sit there and eat a whole plate of candy before I play a basketball game. I don't think anyone could do that.
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
A plate is distasteful to a cat, a newspaper still worse; they like to eat sticky pieces of meat sitting on a cushioned chair or a nice Persian rug.
Enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I've had to deal with in politics.
You get to the plate and nothing is going through your mind. You see the ball, you see the seams.
I have a metal plate in my head, and can pop my shoulder and pop it back.
To some extent, 'The Wall' is asking the question, 'Do you want a voice? And if you do, you better bloody well go out and get it because it's not going to be handed to you on a plate.'
Sister Mary chose that moment to come in with the tea. Satanist or not, she'd also found a plate and arranged some iced biscuits on it.
Even when I eat, I'll eat my salad first and sort of work around the plate.
I have a lot on my plate. I'm not going to lie about it, I'm tired. I'm really tired but I'm also very happy with my life.
I think at Le Cirque I learned how to make real food, which is what people crave, not just gimmicky things on a plate.
It's best, I think, to treat stand-up comedy on the telly like tapas: small tasters of something you'd love a proper plate of.
When I went to home plate in a game-tied situation or with a chance to do something and help the ballclub win one, I'd try to make eye contact with the pitcher.
"Make your plate look like a Christmas tree," I tell people, "mostly green with splashes of other bright colors."
The best cure for procrastination is to have so much on your plate that procrastination is no longer an option.
I think no matter what the occasion may be, you can never go wrong by showing up at the dinner table with a hot plate of fried chicken.
Most kids will not volunteer to eat veggies. At times you must step up to the plate and enforce the rule of authority as a parent.
A plate of food has to have balance. For example, a mild fish like skate mustn't be overwhelmed by the side dishes. They should have personality and color, but they also have to be subtle.
I was a fairly strict vegetarian - I ate eggs and dairy products but nothing that would involve killing an animal to furnish the food on my plate.
The biggest thing with the '205' guys is that we are trying to build the brand and each other, which makes it more difficult, but we are all stepping up to the plate.
I was a great base umpire, but I was the most mediocre plate umpire to ever come into the major leagues.
Whatever makes a child want to glue macaroni on a paper plate and paint the assemblage and see it on the refrigerator - that has always been strong in me.
Our lifestyle is deeply communal, with extended families traditionally sharing the burdens and bounties of life together, eating meals from the same plate.
I'll make a horrible housewife. It's not like I'm disgusting, but I'm pretty bad about having a drink or eating something and then leaving the plate and rushing to go.
Racing is licking your opponent's plate clean before starting on your own
Everything is not on a plate for you at Saint Martins - it's about personality, about working out how to do it.
I'm not saying this in an egotistical way, but I think there's value in having a good hitter behind the plate and being able to put a bat at first base as well.
I broke my shoulder, or my collarbone, I shouldn't say my shoulder, and I had surgery, six screws and a plate in here.
Make it compulsory for a doctor using a brass plate to have inscribed on it, in addition to the letters indicating his qualifications, the words 'Remember that I too am mortal'.
On a soft snow, even a sparrow leaves a trace; the important thing is to leave a trace on a steel plate!
There are other jobs I do besides rap. I was considering going back to school so there have been a few things on my plate that I thought about doing during my time off.
I love meals where you have maybe 10 side dishes spread on the table. People get their plate and they can then pick what they want to eat.
The scar on my forehead is from running through a plate-glass panel when I was 15. I had 27 stitches, which took two hours.
I have scored many goals with my head, ever since my time with River Plate in Argentina and then after at Porto and Atletico Madrid.
I usually eat in my friend Tom Corcoran's place - the Siam Thai in Monkstown. I go there for a very large plate of beef in red wine sauce.
The so-called nouvelle cuisine usually means not enough on your plate and too much on your bill.
The last person I'd date is some rich kid who's had everything handed to her on a plate. Give me a normal girl any day.
I cannot bear the language TV chefs use - they don't seem able to look at a plate of vegetables without accusing it of sexual activity.
... Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up. Books, bread and butter, mashed potato - one finishes what's on one's plate. That's always been my philosophy.
Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.
Fill your plate with the colours of the rainbow. What pleases the eye, pleases the body.
We begin life with loss. We are cast from the womb without an apartment, a charge plate, a job or a car. We are sucking, sobbing, clinging, helpless babies.
Unfortunately, we haven't found many very old rocks on Earth because our planet's surface is constantly renewed by plate tectonics, coupled with erosion.
I have a very pragmatic approach to diets. Ones you can't stick to don't do you any good. Some people say, 'Just eat half of what's on your plate,' but I can't do that!
The vulnerability of opening your heart fully and deeply to another is terrifying, but at a point in my 50s, I realized that I had to step up to the plate.
You can't get away, you can't escape. You'll jump through a plate-glass window several times and end up being right back in the spider's web.
When it's your chance to step up to the plate, just hit it out of the park, and everybody will forget about everything that came before.
A plate of food has to have balance. For example, a mild fish like skate mustnt be overwhelmed by the side dishes. They should have personality and color, but they also have to be subtle.