| 单词 | toast and water | 
| 释义 | > as lemmastoast and water  b.  Coupled with the liquid in which the toast is immersed, as  ale and toast,  toast and ale,  toast and water; whence  toast-and-watered adj., confined to a diet of toast and water. ΚΠ 1592    A. Day 2nd Pt. Eng. Secretorie sig. H2, in  Eng. Secretorie 		(rev. ed.)	  				How I drunke vp my grandames ale and toste.]			 1693    J. Bancroft Henry II Prol. sig. A3v  				Many a Night o'er Toast and Ale. 1778    F. Burney Let. Aug. in  Early Jrnls. & Lett. 		(1994)	 III. 112  				Our Biscuits & Toast & Water,—which makes the Streatham supper. 1800    Med. & Physical Jrnl. 4 313  				I then directed her to live on toast and water exclusively. 1810    Ld. Byron Let. 3 Oct. 		(1973)	 II. 19  				What can a helpless, feverish, toast and watered poor wretch do? 1888    Mrs. H. Ward Robert Elsmere III.  vi. xliv. 277  				Lunch was on the table—the familiar commons, the familiar toast-and-water. < as lemmas | 
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