"Chinese menu" meaning in English

{
  "categories": [],
  "etymology_text": "From the practice of some Chinese restaurants which, for a fixed price, instruct the customer to make selections such as “one from Column A, two from Column B, one from Column C”, where the columns may contain, for example, a selection of soups, appetizers, and entrees.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Chinese menus",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Chinese menu (plural Chinese menus)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Each camper picked from a Chinese menu of available activities: one from the various field sports; one from the pool activities list; and two from a wide selection of arts and crafts classes.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994, Philip G. Altbach, Robert Oliver Berdahl, Patricia J. Gumport, Higher education in American society",
          "text": "Throughout American higher education, Western Civilization courses tempered electives and various Chinese menus of distribution requirements.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, Samuel M. Natale, Mark B. Fenton, Business Education and Training, page 92",
          "text": "Many people who consider themselves to be liberally educated have undertaken study in half a dozen fields from a Chinese menu of subjects.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Kenneth O'Reilly, Holy Cow 2000: The Strange Election of George W. Bush",
          "text": "Cheney's man, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, reportedly tried to force a “Chinese menu” of even wilder assertions into the first draft of the UN speech.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A set of choices from which the user or customer makes multiple selections, specifically one or more choices from each of two or more distinct categories."
      ],
      "id": "en-Chinese_menu-en-noun-DcNKSiwm"
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Chinese, menu."
      ],
      "id": "en-Chinese_menu-en-noun-3ajWyIRO",
      "links": [
        [
          "Chinese",
          "Chinese#English"
        ],
        [
          "menu",
          "menu#English"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "10 90",
          "word": "a little from column A, a little from column B"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Chinese menu"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From the practice of some Chinese restaurants which, for a fixed price, instruct the customer to make selections such as “one from Column A, two from Column B, one from Column C”, where the columns may contain, for example, a selection of soups, appetizers, and entrees.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Chinese menus",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Chinese menu (plural Chinese menus)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "a little from column A, a little from column B"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Each camper picked from a Chinese menu of available activities: one from the various field sports; one from the pool activities list; and two from a wide selection of arts and crafts classes.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994, Philip G. Altbach, Robert Oliver Berdahl, Patricia J. Gumport, Higher education in American society",
          "text": "Throughout American higher education, Western Civilization courses tempered electives and various Chinese menus of distribution requirements.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, Samuel M. Natale, Mark B. Fenton, Business Education and Training, page 92",
          "text": "Many people who consider themselves to be liberally educated have undertaken study in half a dozen fields from a Chinese menu of subjects.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Kenneth O'Reilly, Holy Cow 2000: The Strange Election of George W. Bush",
          "text": "Cheney's man, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, reportedly tried to force a “Chinese menu” of even wilder assertions into the first draft of the UN speech.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A set of choices from which the user or customer makes multiple selections, specifically one or more choices from each of two or more distinct categories."
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Chinese, menu."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Chinese",
          "Chinese#English"
        ],
        [
          "menu",
          "menu#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Chinese menu"
}