meat tea
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of meat tea
First recorded in 1855–60
Example Sentences
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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
“Baas Joe muss plenty meat, tea, coffee,” she said.
From Diamond Dyke The Lone Farm on the Veldt - Story of South African Adventure by W. Boucher
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 George W. (George Wilbur) Peck
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 Frank Williams
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