soup du jour
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of soup du jour
First recorded in 1940–45, soup du jour is from French soupe du jour “soup of the day”
Example Sentences
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“Is the soup du jour made with fresh or dried jour?”
From Washington Post • Aug. 6, 2020
“This week, the soup du jour is Coumadin errors . . . then next week, it’s insulin errors.”
From Washington Post • Jul. 12, 2015
I asked the waitress about the soup du jour and she said that it was primordial soup—which is ammonia and methane mixed with ocean water in the presence of lightning.
From Slate • Mar. 30, 2012
By the time he settled on his name and his occupation, there was nowhere to go but up to the Catskills, where the jokes, like the soup du jour, are always borscht.
From Time Magazine Archive
The two-a-day press conferences, better attended than some State of the Union messages, raised issues as profound as the soup du jour at Flanigan's on Second Street, hereafter to be known as Pete Rose Way.
From Time Magazine Archive
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