英语词汇“post-and-rail tea”的意思、释义、用法解释及翻译-春雷网

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词汇	post-and-rail tea
释义	Definition of post-and-rail tea in English: post-and-rail tea noun mass nounAustralian informal Coarse tea of inferior quality, containing a large proportion of stalks and other woody fragments. they live on an unchanging diet of mutton chops and post-and-rail tea Example sentencesExamples They were called to a breakfast of greasy chops and post-and-rail tea. I didn't feel inclined for corned beef and damper, and post-and-rail tea. He was waited upon by a constable, who cooked his convict ration of beef, bread, and potatoes, and, I suppose, made his post and rail tea sweetened with brown sugar. There were steaming cauldrons of thoroughly stewed post and rail tea. This is post-and-rail tea, brewed in an old blackened billy. Origin Mid 19th century: a humorous analogy drawn between the fibrous nature of the tea's contents and timber used for fencing.
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