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vb. (present participle of wine and dine English)
Usage examples of "wining and dining".
We refused, and so after wining and dining us they graciously bid us on our way.
If only Horace had the flair for wining and dining me so attentively, I doubt we'd now be so coolly disposed towards one another.
As to his diplomatic style - when the Yankees still had their eye on Canada, and looked like trying annexation, Elgin went through Washington's drawing-rooms like a devouring flame, wining and dining every Southern Democrat he could find, dazzling 'em with his blue blood, telling 'em racy stories, carrying on like `heeryble - and hinting, ever so delicate, that if Canada joined the Great Republic, it would give the Northern Yankees a fine majority in Congress, with all those long-nosed Scotch Calvinists (to say nothing of French Papists) becoming American voters overnight.
With all that money to spend, just imagine the fine old time Mum and I could have, wining and dining, gambling, and having fun till kingdom come.
Especially after he'd spent the night before wining and dining her.
Dugger wining and dining her, only to pass her along to Tony Duke.
And despite the conviviality of her wining and dining with Scott Saunders, not to mention the seeming success of their highly charged sexual encounter, their dinner-table conversation was strained.
Montaigne disliked wining and dining local officials while surrounded by the pomp of his office.
Not to mention wining and dining her posh clients, and fussing over us, her dearest darlings.
He was suddenly seized by a sense of unreality, recalling the other Presidents who had sat in this same room wining and dining the magnates of their day, all forgotten now.
As Volo remembered it, Justin had always been a late sleeper-no doubt a habit borne out of many nights of routinely wining and dining authors, agents, and booksellers (a practice the gazetteer wholeheartedly endorsed).
But we have had to spend countless hours wining and dining them, and listening to their interminable yarns and sea-fables.
They always wanted bed all the time and she so much preferred the flirting and the wining and dining.
The point is, if I could get all this simply by calling a friend in Gstaad and wining and dining a United Theatricals secretary, the Enquirer will eventually get it, too.
When we arrived in Montreal some of them met the ship and bore Sir John and Milady away, and there was a great deal of wining and dining before we opened on Monday.