bed and breakfast

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A private home, guesthouse, small hotel etc. where guests are provided overnight accommodations and served breakfast but usually no other meals.
  2. A score of 26, made up of a score of 20, 1 and 5 in any order.
    — The language of darts is a combination of hybrid Cockney slang, metaphor and phrases that “stuck” for no apparent reason except they sounded good. […] Bed ’n’ breakfast—the number 26 when scored by hitting a 20, 5, and 1; comes from the price of a bed and breakfast in Olde England which was 2/6d, two shillings and sixpence.
  3. The number 26.
    — Bingo calls that might leave the budding old-timer generally baffled include:[…] 26 ― Bed and breakfast. Traditionally it would cost two and six – two shillings and six pence. Now its £180 a night but you get biscuits.

词形变化

bed and breakfasts plural bed-and-breakfast alternative bed & breakfast alternative bed and breakfasts plural bed-and-breakfast alternative bed & breakfast alternative

词源

词源 1
From bed + breakfast, from having a bed for the night and breakfast in the morning on offer.
词源 2
From the notion that two shillings and sixpence was once the price of lodging and breakfast in an inn.
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