to wine and dine
10
4.3
- phrasal verb
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- - I'm out every night being 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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"The good news is that Anna was wined and dined in style during the last few years," Cady said.
Fiction book (2001) -
When we first met, he wined and dined me.
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Wine and dine them, show them what profits we can produce for them.
Fiction book (1991) -
We need a man that's gonna wine and dine us.
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And on all our walks, we passed the restaurant where the U.S. congressional delegation had been wined and dined.
Academic text (2000) -
You know, you get there, and you're being wined and dined by corporate interests.
Blog text (19) -
In this space, then, European travelers were wined and dined to the standards to which they would be accustomed.
Academic text (2017) -
Mitt Romney wined and dined mega-millionaires and CEOs to help pay for his failed election.
Blog text (19) -
First, he wines and dines you, makes you think you're the only woman he's ever been interested in, and just when you're wondering where to register the china, he forgets your phone number.
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He decided to wine and dine his business partner to seal the deal.
Synonyms
26
2.3
To host someone for dinner at your home
14
7.7
To entertain someone with stories, jokes or a large meal
10
7.5
Give guests alcohol and food to please or impress them
7
3.0
Provide alcohol to customers or guests
1
7.7
To honor someone with a large celebration or party
1
4.5
To eat and enjoy a large formal meal with many people
How Lavish
70
3.7
10
4.3
226
2.0
347
1.7
3
1.2
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to entertain someone with elaborate food and drink' is directly derivable from combining 'wine' (to provide wine) with 'and' and 'dine' (to host/provide dinner), where the coordination signals offering both drinks and a meal. This compositional, literal pattern is common cross-linguistically and follows straightforward semantic combination, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents would very likely infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Wine and dine comes from the simple image of offering someone wine and a special meal so they can dine in style to impress them. So it means 'to entertain someone with fancy food and drink'.