breakfast in bed

plural breakfasts in bed

1. countableuncountableBreakfast served to one in bed upon waking, commonly to show appreciation for the receiver.

   The children made their mother breakfast in bed on her birthday.

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   You may choose to provide the option of breakfast in bed to guests celebrating special occasions. (Consider that accidents will occur and permanent food stains may result to comforters, blankets, or carpets.)

   1990, Thomas D. Potts, Carole Jones Amos, Beginning a Bed and Breakfast in South Carolina: Guidelines for Development

   Today is Father's Day! Alice Bee totally surprised me by making breakfast in bed! Pancakes, maple syrup, even a fresh pot of coffee […]

   2014, Dave Engledow, Confessions of the World's Best Father, Penguin, →ISBN, page 698

   The next morning, Patrick surprised Debbie and made her breakfast in bed with her favorite breakfast of pancakes and orange juice. “Aren't you going to have breakfast?” she asked him. “I ate while I was cooking[…]”

   2018, Michelle Palomo, Promises of Wanting You, Archway Publishing, →ISBN

2. countableuncountableUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see breakfast, in, bed.

   I ate breakfast in bed this morning.

present singular third person breakfasts in bed · participle present breakfasting in bed · participle past breakfasted in bed · past breakfasted in bed

1. intransitiveTo eat one's breakfast while in bed.

   Not that I "go in" for breakfasting in bed. It is a lazy, ignoble habit. A man ought to divide his life fairly between bed and board.

   1876, Charles James Dunphie, The Splendid Advantages of Being a Woman, page 67