english as afternoon tea
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.35 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
21
Letters
3
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Synonym of English as apple pie (“quintessentially English”).
Example Sentences
- "And for all that, he was as English as afternoon tea."
- "'Well for a start he's years older than mummy, nobody's ever seen anything he's supposed to have painted...and for someone who's as English as afternoon tea what's he doing with a name like Lorenzo?'"
- "If the Book of Common Prayer sounds as English as afternoon tea, like tea it conceals a more sinister economic and ethnographic history. Chapter 6 Modernity and the Book of Common Prayer Modernity 100."