armor plate

Chris Stein of Blondie catches Ramone with an “aw, shucks” expression just after he drops a plate of food.

Well, the pudding moment arrived, and a huge slice almost obscured from sight the plate before us.

He conducts this ceremony with the greatest solemnity, occasionally pronouncing these incantatory words, "Plate or shell, sah?"

The governor made a strong thrust at him, which almost knocked him down; but showed that he was clad in armor.

We sat down pell-mell, anywhere, I next to Liszt, who kept putting things on my plate.

He silenced her with a gesture, and, leaving a piece of toast half-eaten on his plate, he got up and went into his study.