Board
Board verb - To provide food or meals for.
Turn out
Turn out verb - To leave one's bed.
Both terms in one sentence
- For a while, every other episode would open with some apparently grave situation, which would then turn out to be redecorating or playing board games.
Source: Running Gag / Live-Action TV - Bits of episodes unfit for daytime television were physically trimmed from the reels and sent to the censor board as proof they were excised...and now turn out to be the only footage in existence from those episodes.
Source: Missing Episode / Doctor Who - Unfortunately, they turn out to be powerful psychics whose actions on board were likely just mental projections, so his plot never had a chance of succeeding and probably only managed to cripple The Guild of Calamitous Intent and piss off OSI.
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