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wine and dine en · VERB

Meanings

1. (transitive) To entertain or woo someone with a fine meal.
   • You wined me and dined me when I was your girl / Promised if I'd be your wife, you'd show me the world 1975, “The Pill”, in Back to the Country, performed by Loretta Lynn:
   • In the TV world, getting smaller all the time / You're the kind of girl I'd like to wine and dine 1979 November 16, Robin Scott, “Moonlight and Muzak”, in New York · London · Paris · Munich, performed by M, track 5:
   • Five years ago, when he was wined and dined by Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, Mr Xi was in charge of a China still in the ascendancy. 2023 November 15, Tessa Wong, “Xi Jinping arrives in US as his Chinese Dream sputters”, in BBC:
   • So don't ask me to wine and dine ya / I'm from Brooklyn, you're from Regina 2004, “Hey Fuck You”, in To the 5 Boroughs, performed by Beastie Boys:
2. (intransitive) To eat lavishly.
   • As we wined and dined, as we walked together along the banks of the River Seine smoking our postprandial cigarettes, we talked of life and love—and women. 2009, Gyles Brandreth, Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man's Smile, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 71:

Forms

Translations (8)

ja ご馳走になる (to eat lavishly) · hu etet-itat (to entertain someone with a fine meal) · ja 供応する (to entertain someone with a fine meal) · es agasajar (to entertain someone with a fine meal) · hu eszik-iszik (to eat lavishly) · hu lakomázik (to eat lavishly) · hu jól tart (to entertain someone with a fine meal) · ja もてなす (to entertain someone with a fine meal)