Meanings
alternative cheese with your wine
- humorousuncountableOffered to somebody who is perceived to be complaining too much.
Want a little cheese with that whine? As if we are ever in control anyway. Hard to have sympathy for an attitude like that, yet how many of us really do have that mindset?
2012, Meg Blackburn Losey, The Art of Living Out Loud2 more examples
She sighed and flopped back down on the bed, arms out at her sides. What was the point of getting out of bed? She had nothing to do. Nobody cared. Oh brother. Want some cheese with that wine?
2009, Kelly Jamieson, Irish Sex Fairy, page 29One of my favorites, overheard as a chief responded to an intern: “Do you want some cheese with that whine?” What was occurring, of course, was that the seniors taught the juniors how to act in accepted and time-honored ways.
2011, Katherine C. Kellogg, Challenging Operations: Medical Reform and Resistance in Surgery, page 60
Origin
A pun on whine and wine (traditionally served with cheese); popularized by Phil McGraw ("Dr. Phil"), American TV psychologist.
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