pink tea

Meanings

1. A fashionable formal tea party or other social gathering; specifically, one organized and attended chiefly by women to discuss matters of suffrage, raise funds for charity, etc.
2. Any exclusive social gathering.
3. Something (as an event or policy) excessively polite and refined; specifically, one regarded as ineffective and weak.
4. A hot drink from the Indian subcontinent with a pink colour, made with gunpowder tea, baking soda, and milk.

Etymology

From pink (“pale red; (rare) fashionable, smart”) + tea (“drink made by infusing dried leaves or buds of the tea plant in hot water; light midafternoon meal”).