plums

Synonyms

Phrases with the word

Examples

I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake. Mary McCarthy

An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness - much as plums have to be put into bad pudding to make it palatable. E. M. Forster

It's really quite simple. Mr. Isinglass robbed my father, destroyed my mother, exiled my brothers, and ruined me. If I catch him asleep I'll kill him. I do hope you like this pudding. I had to ride quite a way to find the plums. Larry McMurtry

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes. Frank Lloyd Wright

My work is the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird - equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums... Mary Oliver

There's no making apples of plums. German Proverb