Drinking-cup

  • 91Come Fill the Cup — is a 1951 film starring James Cagney and Gig Young. Cagney plays an alcoholic newspaperman. Cagney has the memorable line, Don t you see? I am home, which he says in response to the query, Why don t you go home? : once near the beginning when he… …

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  • 92stirrup cup — 1. farewell drink, esp. one offered to a rider already mounted for departure. 2. an ornamental cup or bowl for such a drink. [1675 85] * * * ▪ metalwork       originally a drink offered to a man mounted on horseback and about to depart for the… …

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  • 93grace cup — n. 1. a) a cup passed around for drinking a toast after grace at the end of a meal b) the toast 2. a parting drink or toast …

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  • 94tea|cup — «TEE KUHP», noun. 1. any cup for drinking tea. 2. = teacupful. (Cf. ↑teacupful) …

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  • 95mustache cup — a cup having a straight piece inside, just below the rim, for holding back a man s mustache while he is drinking. [1885 90] * * * …

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  • 96there's many a slip twixt the cup and the lip — it is easy to spill what you are drinking; it is easy to make mistakes    On the side of the beer mug were these words: There s many a slip twixt the cup and the lip …

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  • 97coffee cup — /ˈkɒfi kʌp/ (say kofee kup) noun 1. a cup designed for the drinking of coffee, usually finer than a mug but similar in shape. 2. → demitasse …

  • 98tea·cup — /ˈtiːˌkʌp/ noun, pl cups [count] : a small cup used for drinking tea a storm in a teacup see ↑storm, 1 …

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  • 99fuddling cup — an English earthenware drinking vessel of the 17th and 18th centuries, having the form of a cluster of three or more cups communicating at their bottoms in such a way that the entire vessel can be drained from any of them. * * * …

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  • 100fuddling cup — an English earthenware drinking vessel of the 17th and 18th centuries, having the form of a cluster of three or more cups communicating at their bottoms in such a way that the entire vessel can be drained from any of them …

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