单词 | husband's tea |
释义 | > as lemmashusband's tea ΚΠ 1874 Hotten's Slang Dict. (rev. ed.) 336 Sometimes very weak tea is called ‘husband's tea’. 1877 Rep. & Trans. Devonshire Assoc. Advancem. Sci., Lit. & Art 9 132 A servant girl..calls Weak tea Husband's tea, and explains that whilst wives think such tea good enough for their husbands, they do not take it themselves. 1895 Hampshire Tea 17 Aug. 6/4 Piled-up platefuls of cake and bread and butter and steaming cans of tea—not ‘husbands' tea’—were put on the tables. < as lemmas |
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