Examples of tea party

• Baptists ironically observed that the fee imposed on them was the same as the tax on tea that had precipitated the famous tea party!

• It's a tea party for drum machines.

• If we have a tea party costing about two bob a head, that is extravagance at the expense of the ratepayers.

• Coming in as an outside advocate, one feels that one is almost interfering in a private tea party.

• If we accepted that proposal, the present dispute would look like a vicarage tea party.

• I dislike, for example, the "chimps' tea party" aspect of the zoological garden.

• Nevertheless, we should not expect to impose upon football a vicar's tea party.

• There was nothing but what are called "tea party" meetings.