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mustard

Definition

noun: a thick and spicy yellow or brownish-yellow sauce that is usually eaten with meat
noun: a pungent yellow powder of the seeds of any of several common 'mustards' ('Brassica hirta, B. nigra,' or 'B. juncea') used as a condiment or in medicine as a stimulant and diuretic, an emetic, or a counterirritant

Examples

I gave him the job because he was willing to learn and seemed 'as keen as mustard'.
Now that we have computers, typewriters just don't 'cut the mustard' anymore.
She tried to join the soccer team, but she couldn't 'cut the mustard'.

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Movie quotes

(..) by the dying or the delirious. Have you ever been seen... like you were a man? In a diner once, a blind woman turned to me all of a sudden... and asked me to pass her the mustard. - But she was blind. - But she knew I was there. That doctor in the operating room... she looked right at me. (..)
1998 City of Angels