soup-and-fish
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of soup-and-fish
Alluding to the early courses of a formal dinner
Example Sentences
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Then into the Drones' Club shimmers a cove in soup-and-fish, yipping, "You're going to be a knight, old bean."
From Time Magazine Archive
He took me to supper at some swell joint where they all had the soup-and-fish on but me.
From Piccadilly Jim by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
As for wearing evening dress, in the words of Gerald they "had to blindfold him and back him into his soup-and-fish, even on the night the Italian Opera Company came to town."
From In a Little Town by Hughes, Rupert
Supposed to be beautiful—and would be a society light except that Lawrence doesn't care for the soup-and-fish stuff.
From Midnight by Cohen, Octavus Roy
To dance all night in twenty-one different places, ranging from dives to strictly soup-and-fish.
From The Galaxy Primes by Smith, E. E. (Edward Elmer)
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