Synonyms:
boom, bonanza, gold_rush, gravy, godsend, manna_from_heaven, windfall, bunce
Meaning: a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money); "the demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed like an assembly line"
Synonyms:
gravy, pan_gravy
Meaning: the seasoned but not thickened juices that drip from cooking meats; often a little water is added
Synonyms:
gravy
Meaning: a sauce made by adding stock, flour, or other ingredients to the juice and fat that drips from cooking meats
Usage examples
Thicken the gravy and turn it over the whole.
Serve with a browned veal gravy and sliced lemon.
Take cold meat and gravy and stew together with onion.
Serve with English roast-beef, and pour over the gravy.
Simmer very slowly until the gravy is all absorbed, shaking the pan occasionally.
"I smell roast beef cooking," he mumbled--"underdone roast beef--with brown gravy over it."
It, too, had an affinity for its own gravy and hid itself modestly under an avalanche of mashed potatoes.
Cook a pint or less of macaroni in well salted water; drain and put into a stew pan, with a little good gravy.
When done, take it up, and thicken the gravy with a little flour and water, and put in a small piece of butter.
Drain and place in a stew pan with two ounces of butter, one ounce of flour and a pint of well seasoned stock or gravy.