soup-and-fish

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Then into the Drones' Club shimmers a cove in soup-and-fish, yipping, "You're going to be a knight, old bean."

From Time Magazine Archive

To dance all night in twenty-one different places, ranging from dives to strictly soup-and-fish.

From The Galaxy Primes by Smith, E. E. (Edward Elmer)

He took me to supper at some swell joint where they all had the soup-and-fish on but me.

From Piccadilly Jim by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

Supposed to be beautiful—and would be a society light except that Lawrence doesn't care for the soup-and-fish stuff.

From Midnight by Cohen, Octavus Roy

As for wearing evening dress, in the words of Gerald they "had to blindfold him and back him into his soup-and-fish, even on the night the Italian Opera Company came to town."

From In a Little Town by Hughes, Rupert