Warm over

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To reheat food that was previously cooked.

    "If you have fried mush left in slices from breakfast, it can be warmed in the oven and made as good as new, or cold fried eggs can be warmed over, or new ones boiled in a trice."

  2. 2
    To present an unoriginal and hackneyed idea; to rehash. figuratively

    "Growth companies, like most others, face several challenges when developing a budget. They include: […] Building a budget that reflects the dynamic environment in which growth companies exist; not just "warming over" last year's version."

  3. 3
    To fill with warmth and coziness figuratively

    "Too many sermons merely warm over our emotions. We are aroused, it may be, Sunday after Sunday, but men and women need more than arousing. They need instruction and training. They desire to know what to do."

  4. 4
    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see warm, over.

    "As the planet warms over the next decades, the Amazon will become a cradle of human discovery or an ecological crime scene."

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