Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: "the sunny side up" for native speakers

Hi everybody!
My question is mainly for native speakers. My daughter has a list of phrases 
(out of context!) she should learn for school, one of them is "the sunny 
side up".
I have searched the web and found out, among others, that it is the title of 
a film, but I would assume it is an idiomatic phrase. Could anyone suggest a 
meaning/usage?
Many thanks in advance.
Anna 

 meaning/usage?
Ova fritte col tuorlo intero.

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I would have never guessed that! Many thanks indeed!
Is it a British usage? I've never heard it in the States, although I've 
spent a few years of my life there! ... maybe I just didn't eat enough fried 
eggs!
Anna 

 I have searched the web and  ...
You should have searched with Google Images. :-)
 
http://images.google.it/images?hl=it&q=sunny+side+up
Max

 Is it a British usage?
I've always imagined it was a US usage.

 Is it a British usage?
I wouldn't know, but it is über-common in US!

 I would have never guessed that! Many thanks indeed!
To be precise, "sunny side up" means "fried on one side only".
Kiuhnm


But the yolk needs to be facing upwards, surely? If it's fried on one
side only with the yolk downwards, that wouldn't count.

 eggs!
Pensa che l'ho visto per la prima volta un paio di giorni fa su un menu 
di un ristorante francese a Tokyo. :o

 spent a few years of my life there!
It's very American.  If you go to any restaurant where they serve
breakfast and you order eggs, you'll get asked how you want your eggs
done and sunny side up is one of the choices (sunny-side up without
"the".)  Other choices are scrambled, poached, over easy...I can't
think of anything else.
... maybe I just didn't eat enough fried  eggs!
That may be!
If the expression in question was preceded by "the", it probably has a
more figurative meaning.
ari

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«sunny side   –noun
1. the part upon which sunlight falls: the sunny side of the house.
2. a pleasant or hopeful aspect or part: the sunny side of life.
3. some age less than one specified: You're still on the sunny side of
thirty. »
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=sunny+side&r=66
In the US, eggs can be fried "over easy", or "sunny side up".
A "sunny side up" egg is fried on one side only, with care being taken that
the yolk remain intact and soft, so that the end result is an egg which has
a yolk resembling the sun. The yolk is runny in this type of egg.
There is an old song, "Keep your Sunny Side up".
It was sung by Janet Gaynor in the film "Sunny Side Up" in 1929, and sung by
Sheree North in the 1956 film "The Best Things in Life Are Free."
http://www.tias.com/1934/PictPage/1920966598.html
«Keep your sunny side up, up!
Hide the side that gets blue.
If you have nine sons in a row,
Baseball teams make money, you know!
Keep your funny side up, up!
Let your laughter come thru, do!
Stand upon your legs, be like two fried eggs,
Keep your sunny side up! »
http://www.lyricsdownload.com/earl-burtnett-sunny-side-up-lyrics.html
Joe from Massachusetts

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Send me a picture of that egg fried on one side only with the yolk facing
down. I have been trying to cook one like that but have had no luck at all.
Maybe the laws of Physics are different over there?
Joe from Massachusetts

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Send me a picture of that egg fried on one side only with the yolk facing
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 Maybe the laws of Physics are different over there?
I fry it however I like, then serve it to you with the yolk on the
bottom and the fried side on the top.
I don't think that would be "sunny side up", because the sunny side
would be on the bottom.

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A quanto pare i franco-giapponesi conoscono l'inglese meglio degli 
austriaci! :-)  Qui a Vienna non l'ho mai visto usare (malgrado quasi 18 
anni di permanenza)!
Grazie per l'informazione!
Anna


Nice song!
Thank you,
Anna