tea and crumpets
Example Sentences
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It’s nice to see that Americans can see that we’re alive and we don’t all drink tea and crumpets.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 24, 2020
Victoria may conjure up images from a Jane Austen novel, but that doesn’t mean your getaway has to be all tea and crumpets.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 29, 2018
Detectives like Poirot and Miss Marple solved murders in a much more elegant fashion - often over tea and crumpets.
From BBC • Jan. 16, 2013
It's all as English as tea and crumpets, but Bennett both celebrates the friendships on the riverbank and sets up the vision of an idyll that never was.
From The Guardian • Nov. 24, 2012
Afterward: tea and crumpets at an inexpensive café, then a long, looping stroll that would take them past both Houses of Parliament, Big Ben, London Bridge, and St. Paul’s Cathedral.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
