basket house | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)Acafeor similarestablishmentwheremusicalperformancesare given and theperformersare thenpaidwithmoneyplaced in a basket by members of theaudience.1964August 12, “Beatniks After More Bread”, inEugene Register-Guard, retrieved 8 Aug. 2011:Like a union is what some bearded beatniks and long-tressed girls are trying to form at Greenwich Village "Basket Houses." "Basket Houses" are coffee houses where they pass the basket to collect tips for the entertainers, who are not on the payroll.1969January 9, “The Scene That Ended”, inVillage Voice, retrieved 8 Aug. 2011, page55:Next month the Four Winds, an old cafe and the lastbasket housein the Village, will close to make way for a dress shop.1969April 10, “Riffs”, inVillage Voice, retrieved 8 Aug. 2011, page42:Vince Martin showed up, Bob Gibson was expected, and all of a sudden the rogue's gallery of remember whens from thebasket housedays were all there.2010September 9,Sean Wilentz, “Excerpt: ‘Bob Dylan in America’”, inNew York Times, retrieved 8 Aug. 2011:Unlike many of the other clubs, it was not a so-calledbasket house, where walk-on performers of widely ranging competence earned only what they managed to collect in a basket they passed around the audience.

Examples:

EN: That's a basket house.
ES: Allí debo pasar un sombrero.
ID: Itu kafe kecil.

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