wet and warm
English
Noun
- (UK, slang) Tea (the drink).
- 1964, quoted in 2014, Ian J. Finch, D. F. Bratchell, E. F. Candlin, General Studies: A First Handbook for Technical Students (page 148)
- Over by the piers a black sea of heads silhouette in the bright rectangle canopied by the upslung front of the tea stall. Cups of wet and warm at fourpence.
- 2015, Geraldine Evans, Asking For It (Rafferty & Llewellyn British Mysteries; 16), unnumbered page:
- At least in a short while he'd be back in his warm office with a hot cup of tea. Or at least somebody else's office with a cup of wet and warm.
- 1964, quoted in 2014, Ian J. Finch, D. F. Bratchell, E. F. Candlin, General Studies: A First Handbook for Technical Students (page 148)
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