wine and dine

Definitions

1. To entertain or woo someone with a fine meal.
   transitive
2. To eat lavishly.
   intransitive

Equivalents

Examples

“You wined me and dined me when I was your girl / Promised if I'd be your wife, you'd show⟳ me the world”

“In the TV world getting smaller all the time / You're the kind of girl I'd like⟳ to wine and dine”

“So don't ask⟳ me to wine and dine ya / I'm from Brooklyn, you're from Regina”

“Five years ago, when he was wined and dined by Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, Mr Xi was in charge of a China still in the ascendancy.”

“As we wined and dined, as we walked together along the banks of the River Seine smoking our postprandial cigarettes, we talked of life and love⟳—and women.”

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