deflavorizing machine

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An imaginary device which removes the flavor from something, particularly food. humorous
    — My granny always runs her vegetables through the deflavorizing machine before allowing us to eat them.

词形变化

词源

Coined by Woody Allen in the 1980 film Stardust Memories.
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Sandy Bates: It's funny, because in my family nobody ever committed suicide, nobody... this was just not a middle-class alternative, you know? I — my mother was too busy running the boiled chicken through the deflavorizing machine to think about shooting herself or anything.
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