flipping burgers
Working the grill
Flipping burgers means working at a fast-food restaurant, typically as a low-wage cook.
The phrase often carries dismissive connotations, implying unskilled labor or dead-end employment: He didn't go to college and ended up flipping burgers.
It serves as shorthand for menial work generally, sometimes invoked as a warning about limited opportunities.
- greaseThick oily lubricant
- spatulaFlat-bladed kitchen tool
- grill marksCharred stripes from cooking
- American DreamUS ethos of opportunity
- nine to fiveStandard workday timeframe
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