deflavorizing machine
English
editEtymology
editCoined by Woody Allen in the 1980 film Stardust Memories.
- 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.
Noun
editdeflavorizing machine (plural deflavorizing machines)
- (humorous) An imaginary device which removes the flavor from something, particularly food.
- My granny always runs her vegetables through the deflavorizing machine before allowing us to eat them.
Quotations
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