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Do I understand “eyeball” and “be/go up the spout” correctly?
My examples:
1. “Making these bread rolls I didn’t have any kitchen scale at hand, so that I just eyeballed all the necessary ingredients.” (It means - I made a visual guess)
2. “I planned a lot of things to do but woken up in a terrible pain in my back I understood that my big plans went up the spout.” (It means- my plans were destroyed)
3 mei 2021 06:03
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1) I would say:
Making these bread rolls I didn’t have any kitchen scale at hand, to check the necessary ingredients, so I just did it "by guesswork".
-I don't think you can use the word eyeball in this context: you can "eyeball someone" - or look at them very closely.
-You could "eyeball a restaurant menu" to decide which items you wanted,
- But, I don't think you can use eyeball to refer to evaluating the weight of ingredients in a recipe: i.e. guessing the approximate weight.
2) I would say:
I planned to do a lot of things, but woke up with a terrible pain in my back. Then I understood that (all) my big plans were (or: "had gone") up the spout.
3 mei 2021
1
Yes on number 1. Number 2 - you have probably understood correctly, but I have never heard that expression in almost 60 years.
3 mei 2021
1
Your meaning of eyeball is correct, but your use of it isn’t quite. You would ‘eyeball’ an amount not the ingredients themselves.
I hope these taste OK - I eyeballed the amounts when mixing the dough.
If you don’t have a measuring cup, just eyeball it. (Estimate the amounts)
How many people are there?
I don’t know. I’ll start counting.
Don’t do that. Just give me an eyeball estimate.
I’ve never heard of the other expression.
5 mei 2021
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