cakes and ale

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But everyone was pleased by the time we sat down for the traditional cakes and ale.

From Slate • Oct. 30, 2015

"The normal rule in corporate law is, there is no cakes and ale except for the benefit of the corporation," said Charleton.

From The Guardian • Oct. 2, 2012

To him, as a huffing spoilsport, is addressed one of Shakespeare's crispest queries: "Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?"

From Time Magazine Archive

Glacial, snooping, bullying, Shaughnessy, like the Clown in Twelfth Night, thinks that because he is virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale.

From Time Magazine Archive

There were cakes and ale; and the cakes did not always give internal pains, nor the ale a bad headache.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George