for toffee
At all, especially of a (completely lacking) skill or ability.
I can't swim for toffee.
toffee
/ˈtɒfi/
noun 4verb 1
Collocations
4ADJ.
taffy
VERB + TOFFEE
making
TOFFEE + NOUN
vegan
PREP.
in
Definitions
noun
1
A type of confectionery made by boiling sugar (or treacle, etc) with butter or milk, then cooling the mixture so that it becomes hard.
2
A small, individual piece of toffee.
3
Any kind of sweets; candy.
verb
1
To coat in toffee.
The plant will close and three-quarters of Britain's apple toffeeing capacity will lie idle.
But all the eating up of shoo-fly pie, and the cooking up of gauzy cumuli of pink candy, and the toffeeing of crab apples, couldn't hide the fact that we were winter-bound.
noun
1
A fan or member of Everton F.C..
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets
- brittle
- toffy
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
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The plant will close and three-quarters of Britain's apple toffeeing capacity will lie idle.
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But all the eating up of shoo-fly pie, and the cooking up of gauzy cumuli of pink candy, and the toffeeing of crab apples, couldn't hide the fact that we were winter-bound.
Wiktionary03
The fire had claimed three of Mr. Barry's barns and the wine presses and the oak fermentation vessels were blackened and sprung, the wine-sugars toffeeing the floor.
Wiktionary04
This chocolate bar has chunks of toffee in it.
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"How do you like these cookies I made?" "They're pretty good, but they'd taste better with some chunks of toffee in them."
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Is the toffee vegan?
Tatoeba · #11576514Usage Notes
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