teatime

Definitions

The traditional time, in the late afternoon, for serving tea (the meal).

British, countable, uncountable

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Examples

“In the end⟳, it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn't cope with, and that terrible listlessness which starts to set⟳ in at about 2:55, when you know⟳ that you've had all the baths you can usefully have⟳ that day, that however hard you stare⟳ at any given paragraph in the papers you will never actually read⟳ it, or use⟳ the revolutionary new pruning technique it describes, and that as you stare⟳ at the clock the hands will move⟳ relentlessly on to four o'clock, and you will enter⟳ the long dark teatime of the soul.”

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