warm over

Verb

warm over (third-person singular simple present warms over, present participle warming over, simple past and past participle warmed over)

1. To reheat food that was previously cooked.
   • If you have fried mush left in slices from breakfast, it can be warmed in the oven and made as good as new, or cold fried eggs can be warmed over, or new ones boiled in a trice.1873 December, Pipsissiway Potts [pseudonym; Rosella Rice], “The Deacon's Household”, in Arthur's Illustrated Home Magazine, volume XLI, number 12, Philadelphia, P.A.: T. S. Arther & Son, page 793...
   • He warmed over the remains of last night's coffee, ate a beef sandwich, and then continued on toward Cheyenne, the mount readily taking the gallop asked of him.1994, Norah Hess, Sage, New York, N.Y.: Leisure Books, →ISBN, pages 336–337
2. (figuratively) To present an unoriginal and hackneyed idea; to rehash.
   • Growth companies, like most others, face several challenges when developing a budget. They include: […] Building a budget that reflects the dynamic environment in which growth companies exist; not just "warming over" last year's version.2005, Rodney Page, Pete Tosh, Leading Your Business to the Next Level: The Six Core Disciplines of Sustained Profitable Growth, Westport, C.T.; London: Praeger, →ISBN, page 77
   • He had never written about buttercups. Never. He had warmed over the dead gods of the months and he had written about wasps a couple of times, wrung some wonder from contemplating their world of insectual intent—the papery nests, the cells of mathematical perfection, the nurses and the workers, the...2016 July 18, Joy Williams, “Stuff”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Jul 2023
3. (figuratively) To fill with warmth and coziness
   • Too many sermons merely warm over our emotions. We are aroused, it may be, Sunday after Sunday, but men and women need more than arousing. They need instruction and training. They desire to know what to do.1911 October, George Parkin Atwater, “The Ministry: An Over-Crowded Profession”, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume 108, number 4, Boston, M.A.; New York, N.Y.: The Atlantic Monthly Company, →ISSN...
   • or these acts-Natalie Cole, Mariah Carey, Michael Bolton, Harry Connick Jr.-love can still conquer all, and cozy traditionalism warms over all of life.1991 September 22, “Welcome To The Jungle”, in Newsweek, New York, N.Y.: Newsweek Publishing LLC, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Dec 2022
4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see warm, over.
   • As the planet warms over the next decades, the Amazon will become a cradle of human discovery or an ecological crime scene.2020 October 2, Chris Feliciano Arnold, “Captain Chain Saw's Delusion”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 Apr 2023