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Gravy

noun

(pl. gravies)

A sauce made by adding stock, flour, or other ingredients to the juice and fat that drips from cooking meats.

The seasoned but not thickened juices that drip from cooking meats; often a little water is added. Synonym: pan gravy.

A sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money). Synonyms: bonanza, boom, bunce, godsend, gold rush, manna from heaven, windfall.

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... strapped on his knapsack. It was pretty heavy, but Pfifer was "well heeled." He knew the good frying he would get out of that twenty-five pounds of nice fat tallow, and he was willing to tug and toil all day over a muddy and sloppy road for his anticipated hot tallow gravy for supper. We made a long and hard march that day, and about dark went into camp. Fires were made up and water brought, and the soldiers began to get supper. Pfifer was in a good humor. He went to get that twenty-five pounds of good, nice, ...

— "Co. Aytch" - Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment - or, A Side Show of the Big Show • Sam R. Watkins

... lovely soups and biscuits and apple pie and gravy. And I know how to clean and stuff a turkey. Only last week Annie taught me how to make red raspberry and currant jell. And my burns are nearly all healed except this one. It was pretty bad, but I was ashamed to go to the ...

— Green Valley • Katharine Reynolds

... went over to the hospital to help prepare the men's dinner, my task to-day being to open bottles and pour out beer for a hundred and twenty men; then, when the meat was served, to procure from the kitchen and serve out gravy. Our own dinner is ...

— My War Experiences in Two Continents • Sarah Macnaughtan

... only soft bread and gravy." At her voice the hound groped toward her, and stooping, she laid her soft, flushed cheek on ...

— The Miller Of Old Church • Ellen Glasgow

... breathed would sit in a pool of water to dine along with Miss Angela, let alone an old nurse. I ain't such a fool as I may look; no need for you to go a-blushing of, Miss Angela. And now, sir, if you please, we will sit down, for fear lest the gravy should begin to grease;" and, utterly exhausted by the exuberance of her own verbosity, she plunged into her chair—an example which Arthur, bowing his acknowledgements of her opening address, was ...

— Dawn • H. Rider Haggard

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