coffee and cakes

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Noun[edit]

coffee and cakes (uncountable)

  1. (theater, slang) A meagre salary.
    • 1932, United States. Congress. Senate. Finance Committee, Revenue Act of 1932, Hearings:
      Most of our actors are working on the cooperative basis. Do you know what that means? It means you get part of it if it comes in, and in a lot of cases that means coffee and cakes.
    • 1945, Billboard, volume 57, number 34:
      Past jobs on air have paid coffee and cakes here.
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