bed and breakfast

plural bed and breakfasts · alternative bed-and-breakfast · alternative bed & breakfast

1. A private home, guesthouse, small hotel etc. where guests are provided overnight accommodations and served breakfast but usually no other meals.

   Synonyms: B&B, hotel, inn, lodging, lodging house

plural bed and breakfasts · alternative bed-and-breakfast · alternative bed & breakfast

1. dartsA score of 26, made up of a score of 20, 1 and 5 in any order.

   This can be a lengthy procedure when neither team can do better than ‘bed and breakfast’ (26).

   1984, Ivan L. Brackin, William Fitzgerald, Darts, page 72

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   The language of darts is a combination of hybrid Cockney slang, metaphor and phrases that “stuck” for no apparent reason except they sounded good. […] Bed ’n’ breakfast—the number 26 when scored by hitting a 20, 5, and 1; comes from the price of a bed and breakfast in Olde England which was 2/6d, two shillings and sixpence.

   [1978 April, Dan Wheeler, Tom Jansing, “Mugs away!”, in All Hands, page 11

   Synonyms: B&B

2. bingoThe number 26.

   Bingo calls that might leave the budding old-timer generally baffled include:[…] 26 ― Bed and breakfast. Traditionally it would cost two and six – two shillings and six pence. Now its £180 a night but you get biscuits.

   [2008, Marcus Waring, The Deranged Book for Old Timers, page 68