"And the boss just warned me that you're a few crumpets short of a proper tea."

This was always followed by a proper tea and time for socializing.

Getting indigo out, getting proper tea in, grew harder month by month.

"Then we sit like brothers and have proper tea and breakfast before spending the rest of the day in learning and prayers."

At least a dozen hotels and teahouses in Manhattan offer a proper British tea.

The prices at the tearooms are very reasonable: a proper tea is $4 to $6; lunch, $5 to $7.

He has cooked with firefighters and he has shown little girls how to hold a proper tea.

I must say, sometimes I'd give anything to have a proper old-fashioned tea again, one gets so fed-up with flies and water-boatmen.

Where can I take my American relatives for a proper British tea?

After the prizes came the highlight of the day-what one little fellow joyfully called "A proper tea at last!"