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  • noun UK short form of ploughman's lunch

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  • Food prices climb a little at night, but all the main dishes sausage and mash, fish pie, ploughman's come in under £10.

    Top 10 best budget restaurants in Cheltenham and Gloucester 2012

  • Foodwise, there are various good quality sandwiches (eg. home-cured honey roast ham; deep-fried cod cheek with lettuce and salad cream) available until 6pm, and, outside of that, bar snacks of the ploughman's (£7.50), potted crab, pork pie and homemade piccalilli variety.

    West London's top 10 budget eats 2011

  • But there were positive signs too: a giant tractor bristling with sophisticated add-ons had a "sold" notice on it, and the farming folk sitting down to a ploughman's lunch and a glass or two had a hearty and contented look.

    Country diary: Dorset 2010

  • And now it is a little after 11, and I have written 501 words and fed myself a ploughman's lunch (bread, cheese, onions, olives, pickles, oranges, some cold leftover pork) and made some rooibos to see me through until it's time to go to the climbing gym.

    i walk where the bottles break and the blacktop still comes back for more truepenny 2008

  • Alamy The House in the Clouds in Thorpeness By lunchtime however, the Lord Nelson was bustling with locals and Londoners tucking into game pie or a ploughman's lunch as they warmed their feet by the fireplace.

    Suffolk Chic 2009

  • You will feel so much better and more satisfied if you bring your own: Think soup, salad, frittata, or even a ploughman's lunch of cheese, fruit, and bread.

    Susie Middleton: The Meat-Eaters Guide to Eating Less Meat 2009

  • You can't have a proper British ploughman's lunch without pickled onions, I have to give these a go!

    Pickled Spring Onions kat 2009

  • As you might guess from the title, it doesn't end in whisky and a ploughman's lunch down at the pub, although it might be said that there's lots of ham to be had.

    So, Fox News was claiming Al-Qaeda started all those fires? 2007

  • I was looking for an example of a ploughman's lunch when I came across you.

    Flour Types Crazy Cupcakes 2008

  • Just when you think you know your way around they move the bacon to where the cheese should be and the cheese.......oh sod it I'll get a ploughman's at the pub.

    Changes afoot........ 2008

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