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pipe-and-slipper en · ADJ

Etymology

From the idea of a man relaxing at home, wearing slippers and smoking a pipe.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Fond of, or relating to, domestic comforts; inclined to remain peacefully at home.
   • Steel girders were now rising to impossible heights where once there had been the cozy old standing stones doing their business in a pipe-and-slipper sort of way, which they had done for thousands of years without fuss […] 2012, Alan Richardson, The Fat Git, page 109:
   • […] the comforts of a pipe-and-slipper existence. 1946, The American Magazine, volume 141, page 57:
   • I knew she liked a good time when I married her. She was always the life and soul of the party. Trouble was, I was a pipe and slipper man and she couldn't stand it […] 2016, Rosie Goodwin, Crying Shame:
   • At fifty-one Bill has become a pipe-and-slipper suburban squire who actually prefers to play the piano or organ in the company of a few friends to sitting around sports plazas punishing the bottle. 1947, Esquire, volume 28, page lviii:

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