If someone has asked you pop round at tea time

[MyDuvetDay]

What time are you popping round?

Between 4 and 5pm

If I didn't know anything else about them, 4pm - 6pm, probably closer to 4.

I'd ask the actual time. Where I live, tea is a drink(that I don't have) not a dinner time, which would be different for every house.

I would assume 6 pm, but I would clarify first.

Teatime is 5ish.

I live in an area where we say tea instead of dinner. However, tea is something fairly casual you’d eat at home between say 5 and 7. After that (or if going out, or inviting friends for food) it’s definitely dinner. Tea would feel wrong for a big nice meal later in the evening; that’s dinner.

5-5.30

Tea time around 3.30.
5 onwards is heading towards dinner time!

5-6 is tea time. I eat my tea at 8-9 though.

5pm

I’d ask them for a time. That would drive me mad 😂

Between 3 &4. Tea as the evening meal just isn’t a thing here. There would be no confusion.

I'd have to ask for clarity as it could be any time from around 4pm to around 6.30pm? Or perhaps later if they use "tea" to mean cooked evening meal.

5pm ish

Tea time is a time of day related to an evening meal. It doesn’t matter if you’re eating food or shotting gin. Same as dinner time (or lunch time) means 12pm regardless of whether you’re meeting at dinner time to eat dinner or to have an orgy.

4-4:45, anything after 5PM would be high tea.

In the South and Northern middle/upper class, 4ish, working class Northern 6-6.30

“Teatime” is not afternoon tea, it’s early dinner, so I’d think they meant 5 ish onwards, earlier if there are small children involved. I’d have to ask.

The question is so vague!

Are they popping in for a cup of tea, or to eat, or to drop something off or similar?
Do you have small children, or older children, or no children?

Honestly, how can anyone answer this based on barely any context?

Around 5-5.30

4-4:30 - but if I knew they had secondary kids I'd push it more to 5:30

5ish

Punctually at 4pm and expect to leave by 5pm at the latest, if invited for tea.

But when they say tea time, they might actually mean dinner time, so I'd have to ask them for a more specific time.

However, "pop round at tea time" doesn't (imo) imply an invitation to either dinner or tea, though a few posters are assuming it does. It depends on the context.

Maybe they've just offered to lend you their Downton boxed set / punchbowl / second-best secateurs/ marmalade pan / skateboard. In that case, I'd expect the door to open as I/you approach and to be handed said item without being invited inside at all.

Anyway, I'd just ask "four o'clock?" And see what they said.

Am overthinking this topic, as a distraction exercise to avoid going up to the attic - no, not for Xmas decs! It's practically dusk now, and my excuse is that I don't like going up there in the dark 🤔 Procrastination accomplished. Thanks 😊

5 - 6.30

But, it would depend on why I was 'popping round'.
I read it as if I were dropping something off / picking something off and them saying they'd be in around tea time so any time around then, not 'going round for tea and cake' like some others are interpreting.

If I were being 'invited' (to eat or drink or have a meeting) I'd clarify what that meant for them.

4 and turn up with cake.

Teatime is 5 ish , aroundabout . But anytime between 4-6 is acceptable .