fish-and-chips

Example Sentences

• "“But although I spend more money now, I’ve still not changed deep down,” she [Monica Rose] said. / “I still like to go out with a gang and have a few drinks and a good tuck in at a pie-and-mash shop. I prefer a plate of fish-and-chips to eating at the Dorchester or the Hilton.”"
• "The only children’s offerings were hamburger-french fries plates and fish-and-chips."
• "Want a $200 plate of fish-and-chips? Take a number […] One of the most exclusive dining spots in Canada is the Chef’s Table at the King Edward Hotel in Toronto where, for $200 ($110 without wine) a head, a privileged party of eight may partake of fish-and-chips in a busy corner of the vast, steaming kitchen. There are eight courses on the exclusive menu, which is never duplicated or offered in the regular dining rooms of the old, grand hotel (where fish-and-chips is unheard-of). […] It’s the only meal the master chef cooks himself, from start to finish, and he slips in the fish-and-chips from time to time to remind the gourmets that Glasgow food isn’t as bad as people think."
• "Perhaps the centre-page colour spread might have been devoted, not to an ad for a novel which is a “romantic testament to love’s enduring miracle”, but to a reproduction of a plate of fish-and-chips."
• "Athough “Un-Tourist” sounds a little like “Undead”, being one really isn’t all that difficult. Basically, you qualify if you don’t want to do any of the following: […] pay a fortune at a big name restaurant for what turns out to be a plate of standard fish-and-chips."
• "“Is it me escaping from the junketing of Lord of the Rings? Well, that is the effect,” says Sir Ian with his crisply distinctive accent before tucking into a plate of fish-and-chips at his hotel."