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without coffee

without coffee 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 coffee

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

Words near without coffee in the dictionary

  1. without blinking an eyelid
  2. without book
  3. without cause
  4. without cease
  5. without ceremony
  6. without coffee
  7. without day
  8. without doubt
  9. without end
  10. without exception
  11. without fail

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Adapted from Wiktionary: without coffee (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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