cake and wine

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A restricted diet of bread and water, imposed as a disciplinary measure. US,slang,uncountable
    — After a week of privation on pound cake and white wine (strangely the Navy's slang for solitary confinement on bread and water was "cake and wine") Carlsen received warm nourishment.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cake, wine. uncountable
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