He could already eat a whole plateful of salt fish and cabbage.

Last night I just threw the whole plateful out of my cabin window.

And there comes Betty with a whole plateful of bones in her hand!

And this explains why a small slice of meat nourishes you more than a whole plateful of salad.

Between muffins (he ate the whole plateful) he saw fit to interrogate me as to my preparedness for this position.

"You've got a whole plateful of maybe a little less wrong."

"Nobody but Sammy Wiggins; he ate his whole plateful, saleratus and all, before anybody spoke."

"Yes, I ate it, plenty of it, a whole plateful!" Bertie cried explosively, like a diver suddenly regaining breath.