chicken-in-a-basket
n.— «We’ve seen previous attempts made to lift the place into the chicken-in-a-basket bracket and they’ve never come off. The pub has remained a pub and there was always a welcome in the family room.» —“No room at the inn for a family” by Neil Lyndon Times (London, England) July 24, 1989. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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