Meaning of soup and fish | Babel Free

Definitions

Men's formal white tie dress.

dated, slang, uncountable, usually

Examples

“Not a thing, you notice, about Elmer showing up in the soup and fish—the women thought that was all right. May Wilson even said that he looked well in the outfit.”

“Then the boys shake the moth-balls out of the “soup and fishes” and try to crowd 180-250 pounds of avoirdupois into 135-160 pound suits, trusting that twenty-year-old seams will stand the strain for one more night.”

“[…] to not buy hundred-dollar official soup-and-fishes when officially recommended to do so […]”

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