builder's tea
See also: builders' tea
English edit
Etymology edit
builder + -'s + tea, from its supposedly being the preferred type of tea of British builders and construction workers.
Noun edit
builder's tea (usually uncountable, plural builder's teas)
- (UK) Black tea, brewed strong and served in a large mug with milk and sugar.
- 2001 March 30, Stephen Moss, “Meals on wheels”, in The Guardian:
- It has got the lot, this, underneath its hinged awning: eggs any way, sausage, old-fashioned burgers and builders' tea.
- 2005, Barbara Bailey, An eccentric marriage: Living with Jim, →ISBN, page 185:
- I ate a kebab in a Cypriot cafe with the freezing rain spatting in the doorway and I was poured a soup-like cup of builder's tea.
- 2008, William Morrow, Beef: The untold story of how milk, meat and muscle shaped the world, →ISBN, page 177:
- The meal should be taken with milky "builder's tea" steeped strong in the mug.
- 2010, M. R. Hall, The Disappeared, →ISBN:
- Armed with a cup of Alison's strong, thick, builder's tea, Mrs Jamal started falteringly into the story she had told countless times to sceptical police officers and lawyers.