| 单词 | post-and-rail tea |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspost-and-rail tea post-and-rail tea n. (also post-and-rails tea) Australian slang (now historical) a coarse tea of inferior quality, containing a large proportion of stalks and other woody fragments. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > tea > [noun] > rough tea post-and-rail tea1843 post-and-rails1858 1843 Sydney Morning Herald 5 Oct. 4/3 Awful accounts related of cruel masters, boney meat, post-and-rail tea, black flour, etc. 1887 All Year Round 30 July 66 The tea so made [in a billy can] is naturally of rather a rough and ready description, and when the stalks and coarse particles of the fragrant leaf float thickly thereon, it is sometimes graphically styled ‘post-and-rails’ tea. 1936 A. Russell Gone Nomad iv. 24 Flour, ‘post and rail’ tea (the cheapest kind), black sugar, salt and meat, were the only rations provided. 1993 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 13 Feb. The first generation may have drunk ‘post-and-rails tea’—so called because it was mostly stalks. < as lemmas |
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