strainer : Idioms & Phrases
Fish strainer
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(a) A metal colander, with handles, for taking fish from a boiler.(b) A perforated earthenware slab at the bottom of a dish, to drain the water from a boiled fish.
Webster 1913
Gnat strainer
- a person ostentatiously punctilious about trifles. Cf. Matt. xxiii. 24.
Webster 1913
soup-strainer
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noun slang for a mustache
toothbrush.
WordNet
strainer vine
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noun any of several tropical annual climbers having large yellow flowers and edible young fruits; grown commercially for the mature fruit's dried fibrous interior that is used as a sponge
rag gourd; dishcloth gourd; sponge gourd; luffa.
WordNet
tea-strainer
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noun a device to keep back tea leaves when pouring a cup of tea
