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soup du jour

[soop duh zhoor] / ˌsup də ˈʒʊər /


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“Is the soup du jour made with fresh or dried jour?”

From Washington Post • Aug. 6, 2020

I asked to have the soup du jour instead, and checked the menu.

From Washington Post • Jul. 21, 2016

I asked the waitress about the soup du jour and she said that it was primordial soup—which is ammonia and methane mixed with ocean water in the presence of lightning.

From Slate • Mar. 30, 2012

The two-a-day press conferences, better attended than some State of the Union messages, raised issues as profound as the soup du jour at Flanigan's on Second Street, hereafter to be known as Pete Rose Way.

From Time Magazine Archive

By the time he settled on his name and his occupation, there was nowhere to go but up to the Catskills, where the jokes, like the soup du jour, are always borscht.

From Time Magazine Archive