what does "would you like one lump or two?" mean?

Answer 1

When you drink English tea, the sugar was, may still be, in the cube form. So they're asking if you want one lump (cube of sugar) or two. Or in my dad's case, four.

Now it's in cartoons, where if they ask for one lump or two they'll bash em in the head twice and get two lumps on the head.

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Answer 2

It was originally a question asked over coffee or tea. One lump of sugar or two.

Cartoons adapted it into a slightly more violent question. One lump on the head or two.

Answer 3

Number of "lump" of sugar in a teaspoon for tea of coffee.

Answer 4

As many have said, is relates to tea, when sugar was usually served in cubes / lumps - so rather than 'one sugar or two' it was 'one lump or two'?

Answer 5

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It means there is nothing you can do about it, and you have to accept things as they are. The lumps refer to when you get in a fight, and have been hit several times, and lumps occur. You have lost the fight. All you can do, is accept defeat and also your lumps.

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what does "would you like one lump or two?" mean?

Answer 7

Sugar used to come in cubes. So if someone asked how many lumps, it referred to how many cubes of sugar you want in your drink. Are you watching the cartoon where they ask that question?

Answer 8

To lump it in this sense means to put it all together in a mental trash bag, drop it from your mind and move on.

Answer 9

its for tea. "one lump of sugar, or two?" sort of an english thing i think.

Answer 10

Sugar for Coffee/Tea