a hot dish of eggs mixed together and fried, often with cheese, meat, vegetables, etc. added 煎蛋卷，摊鸡蛋，鸡蛋饼（常加入奶酪、肉和蔬菜等） a cheese and mushroom omelette 奶酪、蘑菇蛋饼
Oxford Collocations DictionaryOmelette is used after these nouns:- cheese
- mushroom
Word OriginFrench, earlier amelette (alteration of alumette), variant of alumelle, from lemele ‘knife blade’, from Latin lamella, diminutive of lamina ‘thin plate’. The association with ‘knife blade’ is probably because of the thin flat shape of an omelette.
Idioms
you can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs
- (saying)
you cannot achieve something important without causing a few small problems 不打破鸡蛋就做不成蛋饼；不花代价就难成大事