to wine
- verb
- /waɪn/
- I'll wine you and I'll dine you.
- wined and dined
Do you expect me to wine you and dine you?
- Do you expect me to wine you and dine you?
Examples
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I can go down there and be wined and dined for days in order to hear about their special legislation.
Blog text (19) -
Why don't you hop on a plane and let me wine and dine you Minnesota style?
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Sitting around all day while you wine and dine your perfect match?
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When we first met, he wined and dined me.
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It's where powerful white men wined and dined to get things done.
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You got wined and dined.
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This initiative seems to have involved mostly wining and dining in ethnic restaurants around Paris.
Academic text (2006) -
- I'm out every night being wined and dined.
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You know, you get there, and you're being wined and dined by corporate interests.
Blog text (19) -
They decided to wine and dine their guests with a lavish dinner party.
Synonyms
To treat someone to a fancy meal and drinks to impress them
To add alcohol to food or give people alcoholic drinks
Provide alcohol to customers or guests
Idioms
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
Wine made in the US state of California, often from regions like Napa or Sonoma
- Specialized
A wine not allowed to show its place or grape and sold under a simple name such as red
- New Zealand
A small New Zealand shrub with pretty leaves and red berries used to make wine
- Specialized
A flat pink or purple birthmark on the skin caused by too many small blood vessels
- Specialized
A wine made mainly from one type of grape and labeled with the grape name
How Lavish
Surface Forms
Etymology
Wine as in the phrase 'wined and dined' comes from offering the drink wine, so to wine someone is to entertain them with wine and good food.