1 broom

1 smoke from kitchen chimneys

1 to cook food

1 cook

2 kitchen worker

1 cooking utensils

2 cookware

3 cooker

1 The cleverest housewife cannot cook without rice (idiom); You won't get anywhere without equipment.

1 lit. my worn-out broom, a thousand in gold (idiom); fig. sentimental value

2 I wouldn't be parted with it for anything.

1 to value the broom as one's own (idiom); to attach value to sth because it is one's own

2 a sentimental attachment

1 lit. the rice has already been cooked (idiom)

2 fig. what is done cannot be undone

1 food is more precious than jade and firewood more expensive than cassia (idiom)

2 the cost of living is very high