Meaning of husband's tea | Babel Free

Definitions

Very weak (dilute) tea.

archaic, slang, uncountable

Examples

“"WELL, I never! Mrs. Morris, why how poor the tea has got all at once! Why, sure enough, it is as bad as husband's tea now!"”

“Some take⟳ their tea so hot that its flavour, if it had any, would be lost upon them, and many take⟳ it so weak that it can have⟳ no flavour in particular. We have⟳ also heard of "husband's tea," which sufficiently explains itself.”

“As soon as active growth has commenced weak liquid manure may be given; the draining from a cowshed diluted to the colour of "husband's" tea is good, but that should be discontinued when the blooms show⟳ colour.”

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