词组 | happy hour |
释义 | happy hour Theme: DRINKING n. cocktail time.Happy hour starts at dawn for Harry.The hotel had a nice happy hour at five. happy hour noun a period of time in the late afternoon when a bar serves free snacks and drinks at reduced prices US, 1959happy hourA time of day, usually beginning around 5 PM, when many bars and restaurants offer food and drink specials to entice patrons. Come on, Martha, it's happy hour—you have to get a drink! I'm going to happy hour with some of my co-workers tonight. happy houra time to drink a cocktail, starting at about 5:00 P.M. (Often bars have lower prices during "happy hour.") I think that Mary has been starting happy hour a little early. Before noon I think. happy hourA period in the late afternoon or early evening when a bar or lounge features drinks at reduced prices. For example, The hotel bar has a happy hour from five to seven every day. [1960s] happy hourA time, usually in the late afternoon, when a bar lowers the prices of drinks and/or offers free snacks. Dating from about 1950, the term is also used in a noncommercial sense, as in “I’ve invited our bowling team to come to the house for happy hour.” A cartoon in Wiley’s “Non Sequitur” shows a tavern with the placard “Nobody wants to hear what you think, 5–8 pm” and one man saying to the other, “It’s nice to see a place that really puts an effort into making happy hour happy” (Boston Globe, July 16, 2010). |
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