roll out

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To roll out pastry is to flatten it with a heavy cylinder. Away from you, a quarter turn, and again.

The technique matters, since turning the dough rather than the pin keeps it even and stops it sticking. The rolling pin is the tool. There is a completely separate business sense that is now much commoner, since rolling out a product or a scheme means introducing it in stages across a whole area, and the noun rollout is standard. Rolling out the red carpet means an elaborate welcome.

Definitions of roll out

1phraseroll outTo flatten dough with a rolling pin.B2
“Roll out the pastry as thinly as you can.”
- Said"Roll out the pastry thinly; you'll need it to hang over the edge of the dish."
- WrittenShe rolled out the dough on the marble slab until the pattern showed through it.
- UsedRoll out from the centre, turning a quarter after every pass.
- ContrastRoll out, not press. Pressing pushes down in one place; rolling out moves across and leaves it even. press →
- Not thisFlattening dough with your hands is not rolling it out. Roll out means a rolling pin.
- SimplyRoll out the bread. Make it flat and thin.
Patternroll out the dough / pastry · roll sth out thinly / evenly · roll out on a floured surface
2phraseintroduceTo introduce something in stages across an area.B2
“They will roll out the new system region by region.”

Remember it

ROLL OUT → ROLL the pin OUT to the edges

Roll the heavy pin out from the middle to the edges until the dough is flat and wide.

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Practised in In the Kitchen, A Man Called Ove

First appears in chapter 30 of A Man Called Ove.

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