kickshaw

1 The maid served a number of elegant kickshaws, and the grave serving-man who had superintended the dinner-table on the previous evening entered with a bottle of hock in a cradle and stealthily withdrew.

2 He can’t make what you call side dishes and French kickshaws.

3 Like roses blooming in a snowdrift, so puffs and pies and kickshaws of all rarest sorts appeared upon a dazzling white tablecloth, and then—disappeared.

4 The table held only the kickshaws—cakes, candy, nuts, syllabub and custard.

5 Her feast was better cooked, altogether more substantial and real than the kickshaws and sweetmeats she chose to ascribe to the menus of Arcadia.

6 When Mammon advises Swellfoot the Tyrant to refresh himself with A simple kickshaw by your Persian cook Such as is served at the Great King's second table.

7 With responsibility—not merely for commas and niceties and literary kickshaws, but in its old sense—disappears also a portion of the interest of editorial labour.

8 I don't care about kickshaws after a good dinner.

9 No cakes, no pastry kickshaws, and only wheaten bread enough for absolute necessity.

10 Many restaurant put out picture of their kickshaw to attract customer.

很多餐馆都把自己精美菜肴的照片挂在外面以招引顾客.

11 Then woke I sleeping appetite to eat as though in sport * Sweets      from broceded trays and kickshaws most elaborate.

12 John Bull looks down from the sublime of ten thousand a year on French kickshaws, as he calls them:—"Give me my meat cooked so I may know what it is!"

13 Jacques Bonhomme in Paris has been selling shiploads of Christmas kickshaws to John Robinson in London, and so has thousands of English pounds due to him by the said Robinson.

14 No one shall be stinted in Walter Ashton's house; but I'll not away with any of your outlandish kickshaws.

15 An' don't come home all wore out; an', John, don't you go an' buy me no kickshaws to fetch home.

16 That’s the proper way to do things, instead of kickshaws and things with French names that one can swallow at a gulp.

17 That is all very well, but if one really wants filling out these little kickshaws are no good; roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is the thing.

18 a display case in the antiques shop filled with costume jewelry and various kickshaws from the 1920s

19 An Englishman keeps the inn, and though he has no French kickshaws on his table, he gives you solid food and enough of it.

20 Come home and eat a bit of mutton with Lady Warrington, at three, in Hill Street,—that is if you can do without your White's kickshaws.

1 无价值之物

waste chip toy bean damn trash garbage straw nonsense pinpoint chaff dido nihil stiver two bits brass farthing

2 华而不实之物

kickshaws tinselry

3 华而不实的东西

gingerbread tinsel gimcrack gewgaw ormolu frippery trumpery catchpenny geegaw

4 佳肴

morsel regale viand haute cuisine

5 琐碎之物

rattletrap

6 小玩意儿

dodad doojigger oojah dofunny concern toy gadget knack hickey doodad doohickey hootenanny wingding knickknack pretty-pretty dooda