wine and dine

present singular third person wines and dines · participle present wining and dining · participle past wined and dined · past wined and dined

1. transitiveTo entertain or woo someone with a fine meal.

   So don't ask me to wine and dine ya / I'm from Brooklyn, you're from Regina

   2004, “Hey Fuck You”, in To the 5 Boroughs, performed by Beastie Boys

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   You wined me and dined me when I was your girl / Promised if I'd be your wife, you'd show me the world

   1975, “The Pill”, in Back to the Country, performed by Loretta Lynn

   In the TV world, getting smaller all the time / You're the kind of girl I'd like to wine and dine

   1979 November 16, Robin Scott, “Moonlight and Muzak”, in New York · London · Paris · Munich, performed by M, track 5

   Five years ago, when he was wined and dined by Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, Mr Xi was in charge of a China still in the ascendancy.

   2023 November 15, Tessa Wong, “Xi Jinping arrives in US as his Chinese Dream sputters”, in BBC

2. intransitiveTo eat lavishly.

   As we wined and dined, as we walked together along the banks of the River Seine smoking our postprandial cigarettes, we talked of life and love—and women.

   2009, Gyles Brandreth, Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man's Smile, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 71