full English

full English

Short for "full English breakfast," a traditional breakfast meal in England typically consisting of fried eggs, tomato, mushrooms, bacon, sausage, and fried bread or hash browns. Primarily heard in UK. After a long night out at the pubs, there's nothing like a full English the next morning to get you back into shape.
See also: English, full
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • brekkie
  • a dog's breakfast/dinner
  • a dog's breakfast
  • from hell to breakfast
  • shoot (one's) breakfast
  • shoot one’s breakfast
  • or
  • southern-fried
  • have brekkie
  • hard-boiled
References in periodicals archive
WHAT'S INCLUDED Return coach travel Overnight stay at a 3 or 4-star hotel outside London with dinner & full English breakfast Circle ticket (matinee performance) Free time in London for shopping & sightseeing Departing Tuesday 3 Dec Get this year's festivities off to a sparkling start and join us for this wonderful charity event!
Sunday mornings are made for having a lie in - unless you fancy the full English and can't be bothered cooking it yourself.
From a greasy spoon, to an upmarket brasserie or even a market, a full English is king of breakfast if you know where to find a good one.
Despite their obvious attraction and growing friendship, both Emma and Brogan are in firm agreement that neither of them is in a position to look for love, but how long can they fight their fears and desires as the events and people around them all conspire to create a full English love story?
ITV's football show The Full English ditched its original diet-programme remit when the ex-soccer stars failed to fight the flab.
More than half have a Full English breakfast every day, 64 per cent rely on energy and fizzy drinks to keep going, and 79 per cent opt for crisps and sugary snacks.
THERE are two sorts of morning plane passengers in this world - the ones who content themselves with a Pret porridge pot and a coffee, and the ones who go all in with a full English and a pint because your holiday starts now - even if now is 6am.
The Porky Pig in Manchester is serving up the Full English Yorkshire Pudding.
They offer an avocado brunch as well as both a vegan and traditional full English. The latter consists of pork sausages, bacon, egg, cherry vine tomatoes, toast, flat mushroom, beans and homemade hash potatoes.
The Full English Brexit ON A recent trip to Brussels To claim our country back Mrs May was awake quite early So she ordered herself a quick snack "I'll have the full English Brexit With a little sauce, HP!
The 25 Boutique B&B's winning Full English Breakfast features bacon and sausages from a local butcher, twice cooked field mushrooms, a Devon free-range egg with a yolk that oozes when broken, oven-baked tomato topped with a drizzle of olive oil, delicious hash browns and a square dish filled with baked beans.
RESTAURANT critic AA Gill has revealed he has been diagnosed with the "full English" of cancers.
The Full English costs PS9 and includes Cumberland sausage, smoked bacon, scrambled eggs, sauteed potatoes, mushrooms, beans, grilled tomato and buttered toast.
ALEX Salmond last night warned Scots against swallowing the "full English Brexit".
? 2 nights at the 4 star Marriott hotel, Slough with full English breakfast ?