˜yÐÄvlog

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meat tea

noun

British.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of meat tea1

First recorded in 1855–60
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Example Sentences

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"The terrorists are in control of the area - they send us to the forest to work as agricultural labourers, and when we come back they come into the town to eat meat, tea and bottled goods without paying," one villager complained.

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Avoid meat, tea, coffee, cocoa, white bread, white sugar, pastry, vinegar, table salt and alcohol.

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A fitness fanatic, he avoided meat, tea, coffee and chocolate.

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The UN rations are dry and many people would wish to sell them in order to buy other things including vegetables, meat, tea or sugar.

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And I wanted to read more of this sort of fiction, in which complex sensual pleasure came from the writing itself, in which even a description of a bunch of flowers becomes dirty: “The colours spoke to her of custard, of blancmange – a leaden meat tea served on pastel plates, the desiccation of a proletarian wake for some tyrant grandad, or some pub parrot of a granny, mad for these thirty years.â€

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