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without biscuits

without biscuits is the alternative form of without tea and biscuits.

Meaning of without tea and biscuits

Prepositional phrase

  1. (UK, humorous) Inquisitorial, severe.
    • It is not actually the classic 'one-sided without tea and biscuits' meeting, but initially I am told that I mustn't let 'blood-lust' curb my judgement.2018 March 13, Mike Borlace, Spider Zero Seven, Troubador Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 194

Questions about without biscuits

What is without biscuits the alternative form of?
Without biscuits is the alternative form of without tea and biscuits.

Words near without biscuits in the dictionary

  1. without a word of a lie
  2. without accident
  3. without batting an eye
  4. without batting an eyelash
  5. without batting an eyelid
  6. without biscuits
  7. without blinking an eye
  8. without blinking an eyelash
  9. without blinking an eyelid
  10. without book
  11. without cause

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Adapted from Wiktionary: without biscuits (page history and authors); without tea and biscuits (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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