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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