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From being the cheapest item in a café or diner. |
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Revision as of 14:26, 25 July 2022
English
Etymology
From being the cheapest item in a café or diner.
Noun
- (slang, sometimes attributive) A trivial amount of money; peanuts.
- 2017, Harvey Frommer, The Ultimate Yankee Book:
- Don't go help those people with their shows for coffee-and-cake money.
See also
Further reading
- “coffee-and n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
- “coffee-and adj.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present