Meaning of English as afternoon tea | Babel Free

Definitions

Synonym of English as apple pie (“quintessentially English”).

Examples

“And for all that, he was as English as afternoon tea.”

“'Well for a start he's years older than mummy, nobody's ever seen anything he's supposed to have painted...and for someone who's as English as afternoon tea what's he doing with a name like Lorenzo?'”

“If the Book of Common Prayer sounds as English as afternoon tea, like tea it conceals a more sinister economic and ethnographic history. Chapter 6 Modernity and the Book of Common Prayer Modernity 100.”

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