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Examples
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“My friend, behold my plan for the economy: turn the Pork into spare-ribs and send them to the poor!”
Beat 360° 9/15/08 2008
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And based on your anonymous source for the trollop story, do you think we'll see more and more reporters break from the cole-slaw and spare-ribs pack to tell the real story?
Bob Cesca: Is John McCain A Muslim? A Conversation With The Real McCain Author Cliff Schecter 2008
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Mitt Romney wins the Iowa GOP straw poll by seemingly hiring jugglers, clowns, inflatable moon-walks and depopulating a herd of cows for spare-ribs.
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But if you want to use the public schools to teach that evolution is bunk and the God of Abraham whipped us up one Saturday evening out of mud and spare-ribs, I expect you to be able to show me some proof.
Alert! Alack! I have been quote mined! - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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The spare-ribs are usually wholly removed from the sides, with but little meat adhering.
Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 Barkham Burroughs
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Be it mine to lay these spare-ribs athwart no gridiron more fervid than the pavement of his own monumental Escurial.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various
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De hog killing mean we gits lots of spare-ribs and chitlings, and somebody always git sick eating too much of dat fresh pork.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives Work Projects Administration
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You then split the pig in halves, commencing between the hind quarters; and, when this is done, first cut off the hocks, then the hams, and the head; next cleverly remove, slicing away, what is called the spare-rib -- that is, the lean meat about the ribs -- reaching up about four inches toward the breast part, and lay the spare-ribs aside to be sold or reserved for your own use.
A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes Charles Elm�� Francatelli
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One night last week there was something must have been baked spare-ribs and sauerkraut.
Gigolo Edna Ferber 1926
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Because of the triple conjunction, they invested in a fat goose, to be roasted in the new kitchen-range; and besides this there were some spare-ribs and home-made sausages with which a neighbor had tempted them.
Love's Pilgrimage Upton Sinclair 1923
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