dinner (redirected from dinners)

Dinner is served.

It is time to eat dinner. Please come to the table. (As if announced by a butler; often jocular.) Sue: Dinner is served. Mary (aside): Aren't we fancy tonight? "Dinner is served," said Bob, rather formally for a barbecue.

See also: serve

take someone out to dinner

to take someone as one's guest to a meal at a restaurant. Can I take you out to dinner sometime? We will take out the visitors to dinner tonight.

See also: out, take

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a dog's breakfast/dinner  (British & Australian informal)

something that has been done very badly She tried to cut her hair and made a real dog's breakfast of it. You should have seen the ceiling after he'd finished painting it. It was a complete dog's breakfast.

See also: breakfast

be done like a (dog's) dinner  (Australian informal)

to be completely defeated Whatever possessed her to play tennis against Sue? She was done like a dinner.

See also: done, like

done up/dressed up like a dog's dinner  (British & Australian)

wearing clothes which make you look silly when you have tried to dress for a formal occasion There she was, all dressed up like a dog's dinner, in a ridiculous frilly shirt and a skirt that was far too short.

See also: done, like, up

have [done/seen/had etc.] more something than somebody has had hot dinners  (British & Australian)

to have done, seen, had etc. something many times, so that you have had more experience of it than the person you are talking to Young man, I've been to more football matches than you've had hot dinners, so you don't have to explain the rules of the game to me.

See also: had, has, have, hot, more