英语词汇“post-and-rail tea”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

post-and-rail tea

noun [mass noun] Australian informal

Coarse tea of inferior quality, containing a large proportion of stalks and other woody fragments: they live on an unchanging diet of mutton chops and post-and-rail tea...

This is post-and-rail tea, brewed in an old blackened billy.
I didn't feel inclined for corned beef and damper, and post-and-rail tea.
He was waited upon by a constable, who cooked his convict ration of beef, bread, and potatoes, and, I suppose, made his post and rail tea sweetened with brown sugar.

Origin

Mid 19th century: a humorous analogy drawn between the fibrous nature of the tea's contents and timber used for fencing.

单词	post-and-rail tea
释义	post-and-rail tea noun [mass noun] Australian informal Coarse tea of inferior quality, containing a large proportion of stalks and other woody fragments: they live on an unchanging diet of mutton chops and post-and-rail tea... This is post-and-rail tea, brewed in an old blackened billy. I didn't feel inclined for corned beef and damper, and post-and-rail tea. He was waited upon by a constable, who cooked his convict ration of beef, bread, and potatoes, and, I suppose, made his post and rail tea sweetened with brown sugar. Origin Mid 19th century: a humorous analogy drawn between the fibrous nature of the tea's contents and timber used for fencing.
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