nuke the fridge
To suddenly include a strange or illogical event, often leading to radical and often disappointing changes to the narrative of the film.
ADJ
domestic
VERB + FRIDGE
raid
Late at night, my roommate raids the fridge looking for leftover pizza.
fill, stock
She filled the fridge with fresh vegetables and milk before the guests arrived.
defrost
FRIDGE + NOUN
freezer | door
noun
A refrigerator.
Sweet broccolini with tofu, sesame, and cilantro […] First, marinate the tofu. In a bowl, whisk the soy sauce, chile sauce, and sesame oil together. Cut the tofu into strips about ⅜ inch / 1 cm thick, mix gently (so it doesn't break) with the marinade, and leave in the fridge for half an hour.
verb
To place (something) inside a refrigerator to chill; to refrigerate.
I had turned up with a bottle, which the hostess, Celia, had duly fridged, but everyone else had opted for camomile tea, making me feel like the biggest lush in south London.
He munched and sipped, wished the soda was cold. Should have fridged it.
To gratuitously kill, disempower, or otherwise remove (a character, usually female) from a narrative, often strictly to hurt another character (usually male) and motivate vengeance.
The backing cast are also all excellent, as expected considering the calibre of actors attached to the film – Andrea Riseborough is a very good example, playing a fascinating cop who really didn't deserve to be ‘fridged’ (meaning: removed from the action so that the men can do their manly things).
In terms of villains, familiar characters haven't been fridged but they've been rather sexualized.
verb
To chafe or rub (something).
A Man's body and his mind, with the utmoſt reverence to both I ſpeak it, are exactly like a jerkin, and a jerkin's lining;—rumple the one—you rumple the other. There is one certain exception however in this caſe, and that is, when you are ſo fortunate a fellow, as to have had your jerkin made of a gum-taffeta, and the body-lining to it, of a ſarcenet or thin perſian. […] [Y]ou might have rumpled and crumpled, and doubled and creaſed, and fretted and fridged the outſides of them all to pieces;—in ſhort, you might have played the very devil with them, and at the ſame time, not one of the inſides of 'em would have been one button the worſe, for all you had done to them.
The town spread upwards before them, smoking vaguely in the midday glare, fridging the crest away to the south with spires and factory bulks and chimneys.
To chafe or rub.
Synonym of fidge (“to jostle or shake; to fidget, to fig, to frig”).
To suddenly include a strange or illogical event, often leading to radical and often disappointing changes to the narrative of the film.
Sweet broccolini with tofu, sesame, and cilantro […] First, marinate the tofu. In a bowl, whisk the soy sauce, chile sauce, and sesame oil together. Cut the tofu into strips about ⅜ inch / 1 cm thick,
WiktionaryI had turned up with a bottle, which the hostess, Celia, had duly fridged, but everyone else had opted for camomile tea, making me feel like the biggest lush in south London.
WiktionaryHe munched and sipped, wished the soda was cold. Should have fridged it.
WiktionaryIf you don't have two [baking] stones, bake it in two different batches, fridging your remaining doughs whilst you wait.
WiktionaryA Man's body and his mind, with the utmoſt reverence to both I ſpeak it, are exactly like a jerkin, and a jerkin's lining;—rumple the one—you rumple the other. There is one certain exception however i
WiktionaryThe town spread upwards before them, smoking vaguely in the midday glare, fridging the crest away to the south with spires and factory bulks and chimneys.
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