"soup and fish" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From the first courses served at gala dinners, where formal dress is worn.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "soup and fishes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "soup and fish (usually uncountable, plural soup and fishes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1916 March 11, Charles E. Van Loan, “His Folks”, in Saturday Evening Post",
          "text": "Not a thing, you notice, about Elmer showing up in the soup and fish—the women thought that was all right. May Wilson even said that he looked well in the outfit.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1933, Desmos of Delta Sigma Delta, volumes 39-40, page 173",
          "text": "Then the boys shake the moth-balls out of the “soup and fishes” and try to crowd 180-250 pounds of avoirdupois into 135-160 pound suits, trusting that twenty-year-old seams will stand the strain for one more night.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1937, Marion Rolfe Johnson Deitrick, Tomorrow the Accolade, page 169",
          "text": "[…] to not buy hundred-dollar official soup-and-fishes when officially recommended to do so […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Men's formal white tie dress."
      ],
      "id": "en-soup_and_fish-en-noun-RXA77zSF",
      "links": [
        [
          "white tie",
          "white tie"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated, slang) Men's formal white tie dress."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "soup-and-fish"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "slang",
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "soup and fish"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From the first courses served at gala dinners, where formal dress is worn.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "soup and fishes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-",
        "2": "es"
      },
      "expansion": "soup and fish (usually uncountable, plural soup and fishes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "English countable nouns",
        "English dated terms",
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        "English slang",
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1916 March 11, Charles E. Van Loan, “His Folks”, in Saturday Evening Post",
          "text": "Not a thing, you notice, about Elmer showing up in the soup and fish—the women thought that was all right. May Wilson even said that he looked well in the outfit.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1933, Desmos of Delta Sigma Delta, volumes 39-40, page 173",
          "text": "Then the boys shake the moth-balls out of the “soup and fishes” and try to crowd 180-250 pounds of avoirdupois into 135-160 pound suits, trusting that twenty-year-old seams will stand the strain for one more night.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1937, Marion Rolfe Johnson Deitrick, Tomorrow the Accolade, page 169",
          "text": "[…] to not buy hundred-dollar official soup-and-fishes when officially recommended to do so […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Men's formal white tie dress."
      ],
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        [
          "white tie",
          "white tie"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated, slang) Men's formal white tie dress."
      ],
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        "slang",
        "uncountable",
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  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "soup-and-fish"
    }
  ],
  "word": "soup and fish"
}