Meaning of cake-and-arse party | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [B2]

Examples

“Now the next thing these two birds are sitting drinking sherry and eating biscuits just like⟳ they were at a cake-and-arse party, and this Abigail is taking an intense interest⟳ in where old Norm’ works.”

“He was if anything too keen, with the result⟳ that he developed a genius for making a cake-and-arse party of everything.”

“That cake-and-arse party he was talking about was the shit fight⟳ they were expecting again tonight.”

“Tried to break⟳ me down with the twin brother thing, he did, with ‘Ron’, sending me on cake-and-arse parties – pointless errands – just to make⟳ me look⟳ a prick; […]”

“Hansen was right: what sort⟳ of cake-and-arse party was this? NATO’s much-vaunted VJTF, established with a great fanfare at the NATO Summit in Wales in September 2014, was proving to be a political fudge rather than a credible military force⟳.”

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