Use loaf.

Use loaf.
Use (your) loaf. British & Australian, old-fashioned if you tell someone to use their loaf, you are telling them in a slightly angry way that they should think more carefully about what they are doing.

You haven't even switched the thing on. Come on, Jamie, use your loaf!


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  • Use your loaf. — Use (your) loaf. British & Australian, old fashioned if you tell someone to use their loaf, you are telling them in a slightly angry way that they should think more carefully about what they are doing. You haven t even switched the thing on. Come …   New idioms dictionary

  • use one's loaf Brit. — use one s loaf Brit. informal use one s common sense. [prob. from loaf of bread, rhyming sl. for head .] → loaf …   English new terms dictionary

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  • loaf — loaf1 [lōf] n. pl. loaves [lōvz] [ME lof < OE hlaf, akin to Ger laib, OHG hlaib, ON hleifr, Goth hlaifs] 1. a portion of bread baked in one piece, commonly of oblong shape and in a size convenient for table use 2. any mass of food shaped… …   English World dictionary

  • Loaf — A loaf is a shaped, usually rounded or oblong, mass of food. It may refer to a bread or other moulded foods, such as meatloaf. [American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th ed, 2003.] The term loaf sometimes refers to head from the… …   Wikipedia

  • loaf — loaf1 /lohf/, n., pl. loaves /lohvz/. 1. a portion of bread or cake baked in a mass, usually oblong with a rounded top. 2. a shaped or molded mass of food, as of sugar or chopped meat: a veal loaf. 3. Brit. a. the rounded head of a cabbage,… …   Universalium

  • loaf — I UK [ləʊf] / US [loʊf] noun [countable] Word forms loaf : singular loaf plural loaves UK [ləʊvz] / US [loʊvz] * bread in a long, round, or square shape that you cut into slices (= thin flat pieces) for eating. A sliced loaf has been cut into… …   English dictionary

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