soup-and-fish

[ soop-uhn-fish ]
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nounInformal.
  1. a man's formal evening clothes.

Origin of soup-and-fish

1
Alluding to the early courses of a formal dinner

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How to use soup-and-fish in a sentence

  • To dance all night in twenty-one different places, ranging from dives to strictly soup-and-fish.

    The Galaxy Primes | Edward Elmer Smith