flipping burgers

flip burgers

1. Literally, to cook hamburgers, typically but not always as part of one's job at a fast food restaurant. (Cooking hamburgers often includes flipping them on a grill or flat top to ensure each side is cooked.) I spend all day flipping burgers, so I'm never in the mood to eat them when I'm not at work. Joe's out back flipping some burgers on the grill. If you're hungry, I can tell him to throw another one on.

2. By extension, to work at a job that is low-paying, monotonous, has few opportunities for advancement, and is below one's potential. If the phrase refers to a hypothetical job, it does not have to be limited to fast food. However, this phrase is not usually used to refer to an actual job if that job does not involve fast food or literally cooking hamburgers. I know you need cash, but I think you should focus your energy on finding a solid job rather than picking up a few bucks flipping burgers. A lot of people look down on flipping burgers, but that's where I started, and I've worked my way up to regional manager.

flipping burgers

tv. cooking hamburger patties in a fast food restaurant as an occupation that school drop outs end up doing. (An occupation that offers practically no opportunities for advancement.) Do you want to spend the rest of your life flipping burgers! Do your damn homework!

词组	flipping burgers
释义	flipping burgers flip burgers 1. Literally, to cook hamburgers, typically but not always as part of one's job at a fast food restaurant. (Cooking hamburgers often includes flipping them on a grill or flat top to ensure each side is cooked.) I spend all day flipping burgers, so I'm never in the mood to eat them when I'm not at work. Joe's out back flipping some burgers on the grill. If you're hungry, I can tell him to throw another one on. 2. By extension, to work at a job that is low-paying, monotonous, has few opportunities for advancement, and is below one's potential. If the phrase refers to a hypothetical job, it does not have to be limited to fast food. However, this phrase is not usually used to refer to an actual job if that job does not involve fast food or literally cooking hamburgers. I know you need cash, but I think you should focus your energy on finding a solid job rather than picking up a few bucks flipping burgers. A lot of people look down on flipping burgers, but that's where I started, and I've worked my way up to regional manager. See also: burger, flip Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. flipping burgers tv. cooking hamburger patties in a fast food restaurant as an occupation that school drop outs end up doing. (An occupation that offers practically no opportunities for advancement.) Do you want to spend the rest of your life flipping burgers! Do your damn homework! See also: burger, flip McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions See also: flip burgers flipper burger flipper burger-flipper field grounders literally in (one's) glory in glory in one's glory in your glory References in periodicals archive Without the TV rights deal, George is probably working in a coalmine or flipping burgers at McDonald's." Bailey told to think himself lucky in TV spat In fact, some of them have been flipping burgers for a good two or three years now. Big Brother losers make a meal of it "Successful Interview Skills" should be a purchase for any who want a job greater than flipping burgers. Successful Interview Skills, fifth edition that he almost offered to represent a friend in court, did shifts flipping burgers to essay a cook in Frankie and Johnny and defocused his eyes almost to the point of blindness to become a sightless former army colonel in Scent Of A Woman. OTHER STARS WHO'VE WALKED IT LIKE THEY'VE TALKED IT.. Yes folks, while you've been flipping burgers in the heatwave, they've been flipping homes. Miliband and Air Force One Mandy Maloney needed a job and wanted a change from her former occupation of flipping burgers at a fast food joint. One Clown Short Emma Cox and Luke Pittard vowed to continue flipping burgers at their local McDonald's after hitting the jackpot last month. HAPPY WITH OUR McLOTTO! Using Mr Turner's face, the firm now claims the fast pace of a job flipping burgers is just the tonic to keep pensioners young. New face of fast food You might like to go on to the internet and look at a picture of this character, as there is every chance that he could be stacking shelves or flipping burgers near you sometime soon, after one of those "I can't think how it happened" incidents for which the Home Office is renowned. Keith Hann column JASPER - Laboring over a hot grill, Ken Nickel didn't mind flipping burgers on the holiday commemorating workers. Unions picnic for Labor Day Ten years ago he won a celebrity lookalike competition, gave up flipping burgers in McDonald's, and began a lucrative new career impersonating the 46-year-old singer. NOSEFLASH.. I'M JACKO'S TV DOUBLE; TRIAL COULD BE EDDIE'S LAST STAND "Yeah, I got that." Inside Cola Burgers, a man with a white hat that is not fuzzy is flipping burgers. His name is Tony He has very large ears, and his face is red from the heat inside the kitchen. CROSS THE STREET Bill@microsoft.com must get fed up of the 'your software sucks' and 'death to the evil empire' e-mails from sixteen-year-old wannabe hackers, currently flipping burgers somewhere in the Mid West. e-business: The PM should not be let out alone on the Super Highway Riders David Flores, Chris McCarron, Kent Desormeaux, Gary Stevens and others will be flipping burgers for the grooms, hotwalkers, exercise riders and their families in a show of appreciation for all the effort that those workers put in. Stateside: Recognition for backstretch staff Few high school students may be able to match either Pang's skills or luck, but the days are gone when teenagers were limited to flipping burgers or mowing lawns during summertime. $100,000 for a Summer Job? Believe it
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