plural of boiled dinner

Synonym of Jiggs dinner (“traditional meal of salted beef boiled with vegetables”)

(archaic) The whole lot; all, or everybody.

A process appears to go more slowly if one waits for it rather than engaging in other activities.

Alternative form of a watched pot never boils

Alternative form of a watched pot never boils

(UK, Australia) Cease to boil when heat is no longer applied. / (idiomatic, UK, Australia) To lose interest; to pall. / (idiomatic, UK, Australia) To become of diminished intensity or urgency.

(idiomatic) To maintain one's livelihood; to continue to procure the necessities of living. / (idiomatic) To continue going on actively, as in certain games.

(simile, US, colloquial) Thoroughly drunk; inebriated.

Synonym of eat crow