Meaning of pipe-and-slipper | Babel Free

Definitions

Fond of, or relating to, domestic comforts; inclined to remain peacefully at home.

not-comparable

Examples

“[…] the comforts of a pipe-and-slipper existence.”

“At fifty-one Bill has become a pipe-and-slipper suburban squire who actually prefers to play the piano or organ in the company of a few friends to sitting around sports plazas punishing the bottle.”

“Steel girders were now rising to impossible heights where once there had been the cozy old standing stones doing their business in a pipe-and-slipper sort of way, which they had done for thousands of years without fuss […]”

“I knew she liked a good time when I married her. She was always the life and soul of the party. Trouble was, I was a pipe and slipper man and she couldn't stand it […]”

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