salad bowl
Americannoun
-
a large bowl in which a salad, especially a tossed salad, is served.
-
a small bowl for individual servings of salad.
Etymology
Origin of salad bowl
First recorded in 1765–75
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
In a salad bowl, place a thick layer of watermelon, then top with a light layer of sliced onions, olives, and feta.
From Salon • Aug. 15, 2024
"There were several weeks when everything went. I had no voice at one point and I was just coughing up industrial levels of mucus. barrages of it into a little Tupperware salad bowl."
From BBC • May 4, 2024
“Salinas is the salad bowl of the world,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 21, 2022
Told of his friend’s analogy, Amer offered a correction: “I like salad bowl better than melting pot. Everybody loses their own identity in the melting pot. In a salad bowl, everything retains its original flavor.”
From New York Times • Aug. 19, 2022
She looked belligerently at Trotter, but Trotter was so busy making the meat platter and the salad bowl switch places that the expression was wasted.
From "The Great Gilly Hopkins" by Katherine Paterson
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
