coffee and cake
(slang, sometimes, attributive) A trivial amount of money; peanuts.
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(slang, sometimes, attributive) A trivial amount of money; peanuts.
Don't go help those people with their shows for coffee-and-cake money.
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Theatre slang for a paltry, barely-worth-it salary — the kind of pay that covers little more than snacks. If an actor describes their wages as 'coffee and cakes,' they're being wryly self-deprecating about the gap between artistic passion and financial reward. The phrase captures the well-known reality of life in the performing arts: huge effort, great experience, terrible money. It's used with weary humour rather than genuine bitterness, and belongs to the long tradition of theatre folk laughing at their own financial predicament.
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