coffee and cakes

English

Noun

coffee and cakes (uncountable)

  1. (theater, slang) A meagre salary.
    • 1932, United States. Congress. Senate. Finance Committee, Revenue Act of 1932, Hearings
      Most of our actors are working on the cooperative basis. Do you know what that means? It means you get part of it if it comes in, and in a lot of cases that means coffee and cakes.
    • 1945, Billboard (volume 57, number 34)
      Past jobs on air have paid coffee and cakes here.
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