pot on

British

verb

(tr, adverb) to transfer (a plant) to a larger flowerpot

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All morning he’d felt like a pot on the stove, the water getting warmer and warmer, but when she said that, the pot boiled over, hot starchy anger flowing out of him.

From Literature

One of the boys set a pot on it and started cooking something—porridge for the master, I heard someone say—while another fetched a large bag of gari from his house, which turned out to be our breakfast.

From Literature

There’s a new plant in a sunny yellow pot on the nightstand between our beds.

From Literature

“They saw it when the jam was just a pot on the stove, bubbling,” she says of how Archie, 6, and Lili have watched the evolution of As Ever.

From MarketWatch

Long, 54th in the world rankings, had to battle through three qualifying rounds to get to York and avoided a 6-0 defeat with a fortunate pot on the pink in the sixth frame, but could not fight back against Zhao.

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