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
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 Octavus Roy Cohen
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 Rupert Hughes
To dance all night in twenty-one different places, ranging from dives to strictly soup-and-fish.
From The Galaxy Primes by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith
He took me to supper at some swell joint where they all had the soup-and-fish on but me.
From Piccadilly Jim by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
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