Citations:advanced refreshment

English citations of advanced refreshment

2000, adspong, “B7 repeats on BBC2 from Feb 12”, in alt.fan.blakes-7‎^[1] (Usenet):

I expect my household to have descended into a state of 'advanced refreshment' by around 5pm next Saturday.

2003, William Mazzarella, Shoveling Smoke: Advertising and Globalization in Contemporary India:

a couple of hundred Bombay EMW mobile dealers, dressed in suits and collectively moving toward a state of advanced refreshment, were treated to a show.

• 2016 January 14, Nicholas Foulkes, Bernard Buffet: The Invention of the Modern Mega-artist, Random House, →ISBN:

  Emmanuel David recalls that he arranged to meet them for a drink [...] David arrived a little later in the company of Giacometti and saw that the party was already well advanced: [...] the large group, in a state of advanced refreshment, was becoming quite jolly. [...]

• 2018 September 20, Mark Kermode, How Does It Feel?: A Life of Musical Misadventures, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, →ISBN:

  [...] in a state of advanced refreshment, I had managed to convince myself that there was never any real risk involved at all. I had been doing this sort of thing of thing for years, nay decades. My arrogance had never caught up with me. I had always […]