cook

Related to cook: James Cook
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  • (one's) goose is cooked
  • a Captain Cook
  • all hands and the cook
  • be cooked
  • be cooked to a turn
  • be cooking on gas
  • be cooking with gas
  • be the chief cook and bottle washer
  • chief cook and bottle washer
  • chief cook and bottlewasher
  • chief cook and bottle-washer
  • cook (one's) goose
  • cook (something) to perfection
  • cook goose
  • cook off
  • cook on the front burner
  • cook out
  • cook somebody's goose
  • cook someone's goose
  • cook someone's goose, to
  • cook the accounts
  • cook the books
  • cook to perfection
  • cook up
  • cook with gas
  • cook your goose
  • cooked
  • cooked up
  • cooking for one
  • cooking with gas
  • God sends meat and the devil sends cooks
  • have a Captain Cook
  • head cook and bottle washer
  • now (one's) cooking (with gas)
  • Now you're cooking!
  • one's goose is cooked
  • short order
  • take a Captain Cook
  • too many cooks
  • too many cooks in the kitchen
  • too many cooks spoil the broth
  • too many cooks spoil the soup
  • Too many cooks spoil the stew
  • What’s cooking?
  • what's cooking
  • What's cooking?
References in classic literature
How old are you, cook? 'Bout ninety, dey say, he gloomily muttered.
Moby Dick I LXVII
why did you not pull the church to pieces, and bring the chandelier home with you?' And now the old cook herself got on her legs, and went with the three servants in pursuit of the children.
Fairy Tales
"Why, how now, Reynold Greenleaf?" said the Cook, "thou art no better than a thief, I wot.
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
Snagsby, has before now sharpened the wit of the Cook's Courtiers to remark that it ought to be the name of Mrs.
Bleak House
Now, now, don't bristle up!' said Nikita, pressing down into the sledge the freshly threshed oat straw the cook's husband had brought.
Master and Man
Johnson turned obediently to the door, at the same time, over the cook's shoulder, favouring me with an amazingly solemn and portentous wink as though to emphasize his interrupted remark and the need for me to be soft-spoken with the captain.
The Sea Wolf
He spoke in French that the cook might not understand the sinister portent of his words.
The Beasts of Tarzan
She went up to the pan, to the great astonishment of the cook, who stood motionless at the sight of her.
Arabian Nights
Alice glanced rather anxiously at the cook, to see if she meant to take the hint; but the cook was busily stirring the soup, and seemed not to be listening, so she went on again: `Twenty-four hours, I THINK; or is it twelve?
Alices Adventures In Wonderland
"Agreed!" said the cook, who loved good fare as well as a good fight; and they both laid by their swords and fell to the food with hearty will.
Robin Hood
Go on with the women-servants, from the cook in all her glory to the small female child who weeds the garden.
Man And Wife
The Fingers were using the needle on the cook's shoe.
Yellow Fairy Book
Then her eyes, always alert for the affairs of her kitchen, fell on some action of the Chinese cook which aroused her violent disapproval.
Moon and Sixpence
When Mother Maudlin comes to thank Maid Marian for her present, she is told that no such present was ever intended, and so she in anger curses the cook, casting spells upon him:
English Literature For Boys And Girls
"I must rouse the cook," he said to himself, with a smile.
The Frozen Deep