meat tea

American  

noun

British.

1. high tea.

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Etymology

Origin of meat tea

First recorded in 1855–60

Example Sentences

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meat tea

A fitness fanatic, he avoided meat, tea, coffee and chocolate.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2019

He has had stomach ulcers for years, has used no meat, tea, coffee, hard liquor or tobacco.

From Time Magazine Archive

After a breakfast of boiled fat, meat, tea and hard bread, they gathered the four dogs together, and with much difficulty got them into traces.

From The Wilderness Trail by Williams, Frank

The old folk were to be provided with a meat tea; the Mudges were to be given a week at the seaside; the donor was to remain anonymous.

From A Drake by George! by Trevena, John

To be able to draw from the commissary regular rations of meat, tea, coffee, sugar, baker's bread, and beans, was joy indeed, after what we had gone through, and we almost made hogs of ourselves.

From How Private George W. Peck Put Down The Rebellion or, The Funny Experiences of a Raw Recruit - 1887 by Peck, George W. (George Wilbur)