tea trolley
noun1
Commonwealth, Especially A table on wheels used to take food or drinks from the kitchen to the dining-room, or throughout a workplace for tea break.
- About this, he is, as ever, humorous and self-deprecating, attributing his employment to the fact that the tea trolley arrived during his interview and “I'd been so well brought-up that I just naturally leaned over and said, ‘Would anyone like a cup of tea?’.[…]”2001 May 12, Robert Potts, “The poet at play”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
- Related terms
- drinks trolley, teabag, tea caddy, teacake