"coffee and cakes" meaning in All languages combined

See coffee and cakes on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} coffee and cakes (uncountable)
  1. (theater, slang) A meagre salary. Tags: slang, uncountable
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "coffee and cakes (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English coordinated pairs",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Theater",
          "orig": "en:Theater",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              163,
              179
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1932, United States. Congress. Senate. Finance Committee, Revenue Act of 1932, Hearings:",
          "text": "Most of our actors are working on the cooperative basis. Do you know what that means? It means you get part of it if it comes in, and in a lot of cases that means coffee and cakes.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              27,
              43
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1945, Billboard, volume 57, number 34:",
          "text": "Past jobs on air have paid coffee and cakes here.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A meagre salary."
      ],
      "id": "en-coffee_and_cakes-en-noun-Iz19WuLx",
      "links": [
        [
          "theater",
          "theater"
        ],
        [
          "meagre",
          "meagre"
        ],
        [
          "salary",
          "salary"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(theater, slang) A meagre salary."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "entertainment",
        "lifestyle",
        "theater"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "coffee and cakes"
}
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "coffee and cakes (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English coordinated pairs",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English slang",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Theater"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              163,
              179
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1932, United States. Congress. Senate. Finance Committee, Revenue Act of 1932, Hearings:",
          "text": "Most of our actors are working on the cooperative basis. Do you know what that means? It means you get part of it if it comes in, and in a lot of cases that means coffee and cakes.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              27,
              43
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1945, Billboard, volume 57, number 34:",
          "text": "Past jobs on air have paid coffee and cakes here.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A meagre salary."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "theater",
          "theater"
        ],
        [
          "meagre",
          "meagre"
        ],
        [
          "salary",
          "salary"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(theater, slang) A meagre salary."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "entertainment",
        "lifestyle",
        "theater"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "coffee and cakes"
}

Download raw JSONL data for coffee and cakes meaning in All languages combined (1.3kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (1a05e46 and e3d6d4e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.