cake-and-arse party

cake-and-arse party (plural cake-and-arse parties)

1. Alternative form of cake and arse party.
   • 1970, Bill Naughton, chapter 33, in Alfie Darling: A Novel, Bungay, Suffolk: MacGibbon & Kee, →ISBN, page 213:

     Now the next thing these two birds are sitting drinking sherry and eating biscuits just like they were at a cake-and-arse party, and this Abigail is taking an intense interest in where old Norm’ works.

   • 1971, John Brooks, Hat, London: Tom Stacey, →ISBN, page 133:

     He was if anything too keen, with the result that he developed a genius for making a cake-and-arse party of everything.

   • 2011, Charles F. David, “Faster than a Rat”, in Remember to Die, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 164:

     That cake-and-arse party he was talking about was the shit fight they were expecting again tonight.

   • 2011, Nina de la Mer, chapter 8, in 4 a.m., Brighton and Hove, East Sussex: Myriad Editions, →ISBN, page 178:

     Tried to break me down with the twin brother thing, he did, with ‘Ron’, sending me on cake-and-arse parties – pointless errands – just to make me look a prick; […]

   • 2016, Richard Shirreff, “2200 hours, Monday, 22 May 2017”, in 2017 War with Russia: An Urgent Warning from Senior Military Command, London: Coronet, →ISBN, part 1 (Reckoning), page 225:

     Hansen was right: what sort of cake-and-arse party was this? NATO’s much-vaunted VJTF, established with a great fanfare at the NATO Summit in Wales in September 2014, was proving to be a political fudge rather than a credible military force.