Food & eating
clear your plate
eat all the food served
If you clear your plate, you eat all the food that has been served to you.
Hear it in real life
Are you going to leave the vegetables?
No, I was taught to clear my plate.
My parents never made me clear my plate if I was genuinely full.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: I cleared all my plate.
Say: I cleared my plate.
Use the possessive determiner before 'plate,' not 'all' directly before it.
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
clear your plate; made us clear our plates
Your turn: say it out loud
My parents never made me clear my plate if I was genuinely full.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
clear your plate
eat all the food served
“My parents never made me clear my plate if I was genuinely full.”
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