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bone apple tea

bone apple tea phrase: eggcorn of bon appétit.

Phrase

bone apple tea

  1. (humorous) Eggcorn of bon appétit.
    • Whoever gets this car next is going to be pissed because the steering wheel is covered in oily dressing. Bone apple tea!2016 November, Jesse Standing, “Review: Abandoned Salad”, in The Moot Times, University of Calgary, page 10, column 4
    • He takes the other spoon, and we each dig out a bite of this gunk. I’m breathing through my mouth so I don’t have to smell so much of it, but all that means is I’m starting to taste it on the air instead. / “Ready?” Perry asks. / “Sure,” I say. “Bone apple tea.” / Perry laughs, and I hope there’s...2017, L.A. Fields, “King of Fruits”, in Steve Berman, editor, His Seed: An Arboretum of Erotica, Unzipped Books, →ISBN, page 93

Examples of bone apple tea in a sentence

  • “Bone apple tea.” / Perry laughs, and I hope there’s nothing called a bone apple that can be made into a tea, I’m just trying to be smartass while I can still talk without retching.2017, L.A. Fields, “King of Fruits”, in Steve Berman, editor, His Seed: An Arboretum of Erotica, Unzipped Books, →ISBN, page 93:
  • “Bone apple tea,” they say to each other as they grill chicken and saute broccoli.2022 April 1, Good Boy, “The goodest boy”, in The Bull, volume 97, Searcy, Ark.: Harding University, page 4A, column 3:

Origin of bone apple tea

From a food photo uploaded on Facebook by Dunta Pickett on 1 August 2016, which was captioned “My BIRTHDAY dinner to myself...bone Apple tea.” It was screenshotted and posted on the Worldstar Hip Hop Facebook page and spread as a meme in a few days.

Questions about bone apple tea

What does bone apple tea mean?
Bone apple tea means eggcorn of bon appétit.
How do you use bone apple tea in a sentence?
“Bone apple tea.” / Perry laughs, and I hope there’s nothing called a bone apple that can be made into a tea, I’m just trying to be smartass while I can still talk without retching.
What part of speech is bone apple tea?
Bone apple tea is a phrase.

Words near bone apple tea in the dictionary

  1. Bondye
  2. Bondys
  3. bone
  4. bone age
  5. bone ages
  6. bone apple tea
  7. bone apple teeth
  8. bone ash
  9. bone ashes
  10. bone black
  11. bone box

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