English Dictionary

cook up a storm

動詞

くだけた表現 慣用表現

(informal) To do a large amount of cooking at once; to prepare a great deal of cooked food. / To cause a storm (weather phenomenon). / To create a stormy situation; agitate or enrage.

日本語の意味

一度に大量の料理を作る（大規模に料理する） / （天候現象として）嵐を引き起こす / 状況を激変させる、波乱を巻き起こす

On Sunday, Maria decided to cook up a storm and prepared enough meals to last the week.

日曜日、マリアは一度に大量の料理を作り、一週間分の食事を用意した。

意味（1）

(informal) To do a large amount of cooking at once; to prepare a great deal of cooked food.

When I started to lose weight, she started cooking up a storm.

意味（2）

To cause a storm (weather phenomenon).

Sounds like it's cooking up a storm outside. Jennifer nodded.

意味（3）

To create a stormy situation; agitate or enrage.

Given this information, my imagination was cooking up a storm of other disrupting possibilities. I slept badly and woke up sick to my stomach.

意味（4）

(idiomatic) To make a big fuss, generate a lot of unnecessary talk or activity; make a scene.

Iranians cook up a storm in Harare: Iran's President Ali Khamenei, on the final leg of a six-nation tour in mid- January, became embroiled in what the Zimbabwe Herald termed an unprecedented diplomatic incident when he refused to attend a banquet held in his honor by Prime Minister Robert Mugabe.

意味（5）

To make a splash; to create a spectacle.

Kaffe is really cooking up a storm here, with polychromatic fireworks in shimmering primaries exploding and rioting all over the canvas.

cooks up a storm （ present singular third-person ）

cooking up a storm （ participle present ）

cooked up a storm （ participle past ）

cooked up a storm （ past ）