English as afternoon tea

English Pronunciation en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-English as afternoon tea.wav US Adjective en adjective (as) English as afternoon tea en English as apple pie quintessentially English. en 1926 The Argosy 14 And for all that, he was as English as afternoon tea. en 2015 05 J. H. Wallder Fragments of Tom Lulu.com 9781326289294 339 'Well for a start he's years older than mummy, nobody's ever seen anything he's supposed to have painted...and for someone who's as English as afternoon tea what's he doing with a name like Lorenzo?' en 2018-08-16 Brian Cummings The Book of Common Prayer: A Very Short Introduction Oxford University Press 9780192525963 100 If the Book of Common Prayer sounds as English as afternoon tea, like tea it conceals a more sinister economic and ethnographic history. Chapter 6 Modernity and the Book of Common Prayer Modernity 100.