cakes and ale

You worked hard for your cakes and ale, these last few years.

There were not enough cakes and ale in all Orkneyjar to fill them.

At the conclusion of the marriage, they were regaled with cakes and ale.

So there are also cakes and ale in Utopia!

But fallible humans, with their fallen nature, will demand cakes and ale.

There was life before Alice Waters, cakes and ale too.

To cover his confusion, he invited the whole party into his kitchen for cakes and ale.

Shall there be no more cakes and ale?

'Just because you're so bloody virtuous it doesn't mean there aren't going to be any more cakes and ale.

The Mummers continued their traditions of comic verse in exchange for cakes and ale.

"And he and Thornburgh hit it off like cakes and ale."

"I mean that half the coppers in town are buying their cakes and ale with dough they're getting from me and some of my friends."

The boys had smuggled in cakes and ale - Moran had known - but they didn't feel like eating or drinking.

Shall "cakes and ale" Grow rare to youth because we rail At schoolboy dishes?

Cakes and Ale: or, the Skeleton in the Cupboard (1930)

"Yes," he replied; "Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear."

Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?

Cakes and Ale (2 vols., 1842), a collection of short papers and whimsical stories

Ashenden is the narrator of Maugham's 1930 novel Cakes and Ale.

Last week the Senate swept the cakes and ale right off their own lunch tables, voting to ban gifts and meals from lobbyists.

Normally, though, the tomfoolery was lighthearted; the participants would be rewarded with cakes and ale, and sometimes received a gift of money as well.

Cakes and Ale (1930) ch.

"There'll be cakes and ale.

The preface is somewhat similar to the part dealing with Cakes and Ale in the preface to Vol.

I. Liza of Lambeth - Cakes and Ale - Theatre