Some beanfeast or other had got the news — common people!.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Forsyte 'Change] Reference

The meat in this beanfeast is supposedly supplied by Gordon Brown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Simon Jenkins: The G-8 at Gleneagles] Reference

'This is turning into a party, a beanfeast, and I'm not having it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Speaker Of Mandarin]

Exactly the right tool to have in your bottom drawers in anticipation of the next Major Curry beanfeast?.    From Wordnik.com.  [EXCLUSIVE: Tories Appoint Andy Coulson New Director of Communications] Reference

The majority of people attending this beanfeast for the BBC are going to be the usual media liggers on a jolly.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE GLASTONBURY JUNKET] Reference

Tossing is not the sort of pastime any fellow would choose for fun, not if he were the party to be tossed, though it is a beanfeast for the onlookers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front] Reference

If I can rustle up the money to send Mustafa and his mother back to Turkey for a big family beanfeast, could you see your way to providing a medical certificate that will satisfy the school authorities?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Absolute Friends]

So they still use it today: "Wizard beanfeast, Philip, old bean.".    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 1] Reference

"Look too much as if we were out for a beanfeast, my boy," objected his father.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Brief Authority] Reference

Glastonbury Festival is not just a beanfeast - it's a £70 million business, too.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evening Standard - Home] Reference

I turn and see a number of men sitting inside and looking almost as cheerful as a beanfeast in Epping.    From Wordnik.com.  [War and the future: Italy, France and Britain at war] Reference

"It's more like a beanfeast than the exam.!" laughed Mary Payne, handing round a packet of chocolates.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Luckiest Girl in the School] Reference

Who were those awful persons, who occupied more of the train than a bricklayer's beanfeast, and yet were more fastidious and delicate than the King's own suite?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tremendous Trifles] Reference

Last year's departure of his close friend, BBC head of footballNiall Sloane, to become ITV head of sport left O'Neill with a dilemmafor this summer's beanfeast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Football.co.uk news feed] Reference

Sounds like a beanfeast for government suppliers - except that at the same time he announced that "the lifecycle of all end user devices has been extended to five years" and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Irish Blogs] Reference

People from all the outlying villages came to the fête, and occasionally we got a beanfeast party in motor-coaches, or people from the adjacent seaside resort of Wyemouth Harbour.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Saltmarsh Murders]

Then one week I encountered on the Heath the annual beanfeast of the Pottey Asylum for the Feeble-minded, and won with a score of a hundred and seven, and I think the others said it was not fair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marge Askinforit] Reference

Not in the least: I too am Mancunian by birth and home - for almost sixty years; and I was simply sidelighting the comments on this board which come from people who won't end up paying for this propaganda beanfeast, because they're not Manchester Council Tax payers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manchester Evening News - RSS Feed] Reference

'Do you ever' ave a pain in your back? 'because, if so, there's a picture of a kind gent who's willing for one and sixpence halfpenny to take it quite away from you -- make you look forward to scrubbing floors, and standing over the wash-tub six' ours at a stretch like to a beanfeast.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Angel and the Author, and others] Reference

“Every corner shop has got posters up advertising some cultural beanfeast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deadline for Murder]

They see one woman and a lot of men on a beanfeast, and she's got to pass on to the next picket to be accounted for. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Ambrotox and Limping Dick] Reference

When Agatha knocked a nail into the gas-pipe on Thursday afternoon, when the shops were closed, and all the men had gone off to a beanfeast, you didn't think it much of a joke then! "said Elsie darkly.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Houseful of Girls] Reference

"Some beanfeast from Abingdon, I expect.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green] Reference

I expect this lot'll be 'aving a beanfeast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 8, 1891] Reference

"A beanfeast?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Deep Waters, the Entire Collection] Reference

Hockes 'at the beanfeast. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Big Bow Mystery] Reference

"And what's the matter with a beanfeast?.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Brief Authority] Reference

“Yes there’s a regular beanfeast to-morrow at.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guermantes Way] Reference

From slang I remember from my childhood (southern UK), a good proportion of it comes across as pretty standard 1950s-60s working class colloquial English: for instance, all taken away (= hysterectomy), bag of nerves, bathers (= swimming costume), beanfeast, bloke, botched, cap it all, dribs and drabs, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: WENGLISH.] Reference