five-o'clock tea

"I say, Bucky," said Frawley with a lazy interest, "would they serve you five-o'clock tea here, I wonder?"

From Murder in Any Degree by Owen Johnson

Its habit of getting up late you'll agree That it carries too far, when I say That it frequently breakfasts at five-o'clock tea, And dines on the following day.

From The Best Nonsense Verses by Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon

If Tobias saw a young woman stop to breathe he came up and reminded her that this wasn't a matinée—they weren't having a party that day nor serving five-o'clock tea.

From Winnie Childs The Shop Girl by C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson

The English send word when you can be received, and you pay each other frosty formal calls, and then are asked to five-o'clock tea or some other wildly exciting function of similar importance.

From As Seen By Me by Lilian Bell

And if I were to drop in for five-o'clock tea, as you say, Leah would be sure to make her appearance and say I was wanted at Gladwyn.'

From Uncle Max by Rosa Nouchette Carey