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speed of continental drift 

moving at an extremely slow pace
Dude, what took you?
Traffic, man, we were moving at the speed of continental drift!

continental breakfast 

Generally provided by cheap British hotels so that they don't need to serve you a PROPER breakfast.

A Continental Breakfast usually consists of some cheap freeze-dried coffee, some sort of stale pastry and perhaps an old, soft biscuit if you're fortunate enough.

The name comes from the fact that Hoteliers wish you to believe that our "more culturaly refined" and "chic" Continental (note, European) cousins, eat this crap for breakfast themselves, and by eating it you can be JUST as cultured!

Predictably, if you ever happen to stay at a hotel on "The Continent", the chances of them serving you this rubbish are somewhere between silm and none.
"For a mere £5 extra, you will be provided with a delicious, exciting and culturaly stimulating Continental Breakfast!"

Continental Treble 

An event in which a football team wins three competitions within their continent in a single season. In over a hundred years of football history, it has only happened twelve times. The most notable winners were Celtic FC in 1967 when they not only won a treble but a quadruple.
Person 1: FC Barcelona won a continental treble in 2009?
Person 2: Yeah! They won La Liga, the Champion's League, and the Copa del Rey!

Lincoln Continental 

The car that is commonly known as the pimp-ride alternative to the cadillac.
"We did it in a rental, lincoln continental"

continental european 

A description attributed to old white people who hail from the European continent, often recognised by their inability to add salt (referred to in their vernacular as 'spice') and refusal to wash hands before eating, and after scratching their arse. Not to be confused with the Continental European breakfasts served at American hotel chains like the Hilton.
Jasmine: Congrats on your new place! What's your flatmate like?

Tina: She's Continental European...

Jasmine: OH..you better stock gallons on hand sanitiser in your flat.
continental european by kuntress December 23, 2018

continental breakfast 

n.

1. A small breakfast consisting of coffee and a roll or bran muffin, named so not for continental airlines (as popularly believed), but rather, because coffee coupled with a bran muffin tend to make one have to defecate, close to the point of <i>incontinence</i>.
The continental breakfast they offered really made me have to crap.
continental breakfast by Sommy September 8, 2004