beef tea
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Referring to the beef tea some fans would drink at half-time, he said it was "a long-ball world of Bovril, packed terraces and Northern rain... with supporters watching fantastic footballers with equally fabulous haircuts".
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2021
As well as enforced seclusion, she was placed on a regime of weight gain; four or five pints of milk daily, as well as cutlets, liquid malt extract and beef tea.
From Newsweek ● Feb. 13, 2015
This is what your white-suited caregivers serve, just before dinner on special occasions, when they allow you something livelier than beef tea.
From Slate ● Sep. 16, 2013
It was plain that something was brewing, and that it was not beef tea.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mam makes tea and beef tea and I don’t want it.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
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