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knife and fork noun- a meal, especially in a restaurant UK
- You fancy a knife and fork tomorrow? I’m taking Lesley out to one of them Yankee-style restautants where the steaks come by the square yard. — Garry Bushell, The Face, p. 179, 2001
- pork UK
Rhyming slang. - — Ray Puxley, Cockney Rabbit, 1992
- the money that a betting pool player leaves in reserve for living expenses US
- — Steve Rushin, Pool Cool, p. 18, 1990
▶ do you need a knife and fork?; do you want a knife and fork? a catchpharse jibe directed at a driver struggling to find the right gear UK, 1975- — Partridge and Beale, A Dictionary of Catch Phrases, 1985
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