True, but, turn that into I’m cooking up a sandwich, and now the phrase potentially expands its domain to basically mean any kind of food preparation.
The addition if ‘up’ makes it less literal, more jovial and less bounded.
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jewbacca117@lemmy.world 1 month ago
No one ever says “I’m cooking a sandwich”
sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
lvxferre@mander.xyz 1 month ago
True, but, turn that into ‘I’m cooking up a sandwich’, and now the phrase potentially expands its domain to basically mean any kind of food preparation.
The phrase expands into any preparation or invention, even ones that clearly do not have anything to do with cooking. e.g. “I’m cooking up a plan to deal with this.”
pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Maybe a panini.