kiddie table

kiddie table

A table typically used at family gatherings where only children sit (as opposed to the table where adults sit). So how old do I have to be to graduate from the kiddie table?
See also: table
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • table-hop
  • bring (something) to the table
  • clear the table
  • box on the table
  • boxed on the table
  • cards on the table, to lay/put one's
  • you're excused
  • dinner is served
  • change places
  • change/swap places
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Maybe Democrats allow this format for a few debates, and then adopt the GOP's 2016 approach, in which the leading candidates all got on the main stage, and the lesser candidates got a lesser chance in the "kiddie table" debate.
Now, Maine does not have a strong Castle Doctrine, but is that a good enough reason to keep us at the so-called "kiddie table" of Second Amendment-friendly states?
If you happened to have turned on any of the Republican "kiddie table" debates this season, he would have wanted you to know him as the former governor of New York, whose experience included being in office during 9/11. But after roughly six months of campaigning into a void, Pataki called it quits Tuesday, having (http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/29/politics/george-pataki-campaign/) failed to reach even 1 percent in the latest CNN/ORC poll and get his message out amid the media's daily Donald Trump safari.
"You have made it possible for us to sit not at the kiddie table, but at the table for everyone," said Catherine Torraville,' a youth member of the Council of General Synod (CoGS), during a farewell dinner to the primate at a CoGS' meeting in March.
The Casey run was plotted not long after the 2004 election, when polls convinced Washingtonians that "moral values issues"--abortion, gay marriage--were keeping the Democrats at the kiddie table even as the governing GOP stumbled from blunder to blunder.
Prim and proper 9-year-old Anna (Nina Kervel) smugly demonstrates her ability to cut a piece of fruit just-so with a knife and fork at the kiddie table at a wedding.
"We want more than a place at the kiddie table. We want our voices to be heard," he said, noting that gays were not offered a speaking role at the event.
She explains: "It's just a little chair that came from a kiddie table and chairs set that faces a corner.