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English as afternoon tea en · ADJ
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Synonym of English as apple pie (“quintessentially English”).
And for all that, he was as English as afternoon tea.
1926, The Argosy, page 14: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.
2018 August 16, Brian Cummings, The Book of Common Prayer: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 100:'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?'
2015 05, J. H. Wallder, Fragments of Tom, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 339:
Synonyms
English as apple pie