Definition of be meat and drink to in English:
be meat and drink to
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British 1Be a source of great pleasure to.
- ‘meat and drink to me, this life is!’
2Be a routine matter or task for.
‘he should be meat and drink to the English defense’
- ‘That would be meat and drink to a side of Drighlington's standing.’
- ‘This task you have set is meat and drink to me, Silver, let me be.’
- ‘Conclusions like this will be meat and drink to undergraduates.’
- ‘The large number of statistics will, of course, be meat and drink to the Formula One fanboys at which this tome is mainly targeted.’
- ‘Such a takeover would be meat and drink to leveraged buyout merchants like Valentia or e-Island consortia.’