Loaf
Loaf noun - A shaped mass of baked bread that is usually sliced before eating.
Wall
Wall noun - A physical object that blocks the way.
Common collocations
| time | loaf time | wall time |
Both words in one sentence
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Impossible Leavening: In "Pioneer Women", a loaf of bread with this trope applied ends up expanding to fill the entire oven, and when the door is opened, it stretches out of the oven, far longer than the oven is deep, and pins Lucy to a wall.
Source: Series / I Love Lucy - In "Pioneer Women", when the oven containing the result of this trope was opened, the bread came out in a huge oven-shaped loaf, far longer than the oven was deep, stretching all the way across the kitchen and pinning Lucy to the opposite wall.
Source: Impossible Leavening - At the end, having gone through revolution, Josef Stalin, World War II, the Space Race and the fall of the Berlin Wall, the same worker bitterly notes that while he has more than enough gold, he's reduced to standing in line for the chance to get a loaf of bread.
Source: Ironic Echo
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