fridge-freezer love

Definitions

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  • noun An electronic appliance consisting of a fridge and a freezer as one unit.

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Examples

  • On Wednesday, Evan Davies talked to James Coyle, an oil worker stranded with 300 others in a camp many miles from Tripoli, where locals, armed with AK-47s, had taken all their vehicles, even their fridge-freezer.

    Rewind radio: Trevor Nelson; Gemma Cairney; Huey Morgan; Today – review 2011

  • When I needed to buy a new washing machine, and new fridge-freezer, I selected items with A+ for Economical and Ecological Efficiency.

    vert - French Word-A-Day 2008

  • ● Invest in a larger fridge-freezer – often these are more energy efficient.

    Time to escape 2010

  • In Cameron on Cameron, published in 2008, another style professional, Dylan Jones, thought it worth itemising, in the constituency kitchen, a Dualit toaster, Maytag fridge-freezer, Bodum cafetiere, a Daily Mail "bathed in sunlight" and Jamie Oliver cookery books.

    What's in worse taste – Cameron's photographer or Blair's house? Catherine Bennett 2010

  • Domestic web connection joins holidays, mobile phones and fridge-freezer among necessities of modern life, Joseph Rowntree Foundation finds

    Britons admit they just can't live without home internet 2010

  • There are a couple of things that still need a wee bit of tweaking and the new fridge-freezer doesn't arrive until tomorrow, but we're done.

    June 9th, 2009 2009

  • When I needed to buy a new washing machine, and new fridge-freezer, I selected items with A+ for Economical and Ecological Efficiency.

    vert - French Word-A-Day 2008

  • The list also shows MPs can claim up to £1,000 for a bed, £250 for a coffee table, £600 for a dining table, £500 for a dressing table, £550 for a fridge-freezer and £200 for a blender.

    The John Lewis List Valleys Mam 2008

  • I think the most fascinating example of inappropriate instructionese unearthed by The TechGuys was this heading, found in the manual from the Russian manufacturers of a fridge-freezer on sale in the UK: 'How to kill the animal and prepare the meat before storing in the freezer'.

    Archive 2008-11-01 DC 2008

  • Or our last fridge-freezer surviving for less than five years, and our tumble dryer for four.

    Archive 2008-08-01 Obnoxio The Clown 2008

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