bombe

Definitions

Examples

• The bombe depended on knowing phrases that were likely to repeat in messages.

• The expression plays on the popular French saying "Je suis la bombe", which translates roughly as "I am the best".

• Her Paris life was hectic; or, as the Boulevardiers put it, elle faisait la bombe.

• Les hommes en particulier devaient avoir une poitrine large et bombe, un torse puissant, des membres muscls.

• Always beat whites of eggs on a platter or in a large cake bowl or bombe with a whip, not with a revolving beater.

• "I think I do," I said, with an expressive nod at the remnants of the bombe melting slowly in the dish.

• The menu consisted of dishes with such improvised names as "crevettes l'Amricaine," "bombe la Lincoln," etc.