wine and dine

English

Verb

wine and dine (third-person singular simple present wines and dines, present participle wining and dining, simple past and past participle wined and dined)

1. (transitive) To entertain or woo someone with a fine meal.
   • 1975, “The Pill”, in Back to the Country, performed by Loretta Lynn:

     You wined me and dined me when I was your girl / Promised if I'd be your wife, you'd show me the world

   • 2004, “Hey Fuck You”, in To the 5 Boroughs, performed by Beastie Boys:

     So don't ask me to wine and dine ya / I'm from Brooklyn, you're from Regina

   • 2023 November 15, Tessa Wong, “Xi Jinping arrives in US as his Chinese Dream sputters”, in BBC‎^[1]:

     Five years ago, when he was wined and dined by Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, Mr Xi was in charge of a China still in the ascendancy.

2. (intransitive) To eat lavishly.
   • 2009, Gyles Brandreth, Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man's Smile, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 71:

     As we wined and dined, as we walked together along the banks of the River Seine smoking our postprandial cigarettes, we talked of life and love—and women.

Translations

to entertain someone with a fine meal

• Hungarian: etet-itat, jól tart
• Japanese: 供応する (kyōō suru), もてなす (ja) (motenasu)
• Spanish: agasajar (es)

to eat lavishly

• Hungarian: eszik-iszik, lakomázik (hu)
• Japanese: ご馳走になる (go-chisō ni naru)