soup-and-fish

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soup-and-fish (usually uncountable, plural soup-and-fishes)

  1. Alternative form of soup and fish (men's formal white tie dress)
    • 1916, Maximilian Foster, “Shoestrings”, in The Saturday Evening Post[1]:
      Togged out in his soup-and-fish every evening in the week regular!