- toffee, for
- At all.♣ I can't sing for toffee. I cannot sing at all
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Toffee — is a confection made by boiling molasses or sugar (creating inverted sugar) along with butter, and occasionally flour. The mixture is heated until its temperature reaches the hard crack stage of 150 160°C (302 ndash;310°F). While being prepared,… … Wikipedia
for toffee — (informal) (always with a neg) at all, as in he can t dance for toffee • • • Main Entry: ↑toffee … Useful english dictionary
Toffee hammer — A toffee hammer is a very small hammer designed for breaking up sheets or slabs of hard toffee, such as bonfire toffee, into small pieces suitable for consumption. A toffee hammer is sometimes included as a novelty item in gift packs produced by… … Wikipedia
toffee — n. (also toffy) (pl. toffees or toffies) 1 a kind of firm or hard sweet softening when sucked or chewed, made by boiling sugar, butter, etc. 2 Brit. a small piece of this. Phrases and idioms: for toffee sl. (prec. by can t etc.) (denoting… … Useful english dictionary
Toffee Apple (album) — Infobox Album | Name = Toffee Apple Type = Album Artist = Peter Combe Released = 1987 Recorded = Genre = Children s Music Length = Label = Holborne Producer = Peter Combe Reviews = Last album = This album = Next album = | Toffee Apple is an album … Wikipedia
toffee — tof|fee [ tafi ] noun count or uncount a sweet sticky brown food made by cooking sugar, butter, and water at a high temperature, or a candy made of this someone can t do something for toffee INFORMAL OLD FASHIONED used for emphasizing how bad… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
toffee — UK [ˈtɒfɪ] / US [ˈtɑfɪ] noun [countable/uncountable] Word forms toffee : singular toffee plural toffees a sweet sticky brown food made by cooking sugar, butter, and water at a high temperature, or a sweet made of this • someone can t do something … English dictionary
toffee — tof|fee [ˈtɔfi US ˈta:fi] n [U and C] 1.) a sticky sweet brown substance that you can eat, made by boiling sugar, water, and butter together, or a piece of this substance 2.) can t do sth for toffee BrE informal to be very bad at doing something… … Dictionary of contemporary English
toffee — noun (C, U) 1 a sticky sweet brown substance that you can eat, made by boiling sugar, water, and butter together, or a piece of this substance 2 can t do sth for toffee BrE informal to be very bad at doing something: He can t sing for toffee! … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
for toffee — adverb At all. I cant swim for toffee. Syn: worth beans, worth a hill of beans … Wiktionary
