spoon something up

spoon something up
spoon something up
to serve something that requires finding and bringing up out of a pot with a spoon. •

The cook spooned the hard-cooked eggs up one by one.

The cook spooned up chunks of meat from the stew.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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