English Dictionary

cake and wine

名詞

アメリカ英語 俗語 不可算名詞

(US, naval slang) A restricted diet of bread and water, imposed as a disciplinary measure. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cake, wine.

日本語の意味

(米海軍スラング) 懲罰措置として科せられる、パンと水のみを与える極めて制限された食事

After he accidentally broke the binnacle, the captain put him on cake and wine for a week.

彼はビンナクルを誤って壊したので、船長は彼を1週間、パンと水だけの懲罰食にした。

意味（1）

(US, naval slang) A restricted diet of bread and water, imposed as a disciplinary measure.

After a week of privation on pound cake and white wine (strangely the Navy's slang for solitary confinement on bread and water was cake and wine) Carlsen received warm nourishment.

意味（2）

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cake, wine.