A drink with a mate? (5,3)
I believe the answer is:
china tea
'a drink with a mate?' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot judge whether it can be defined by this definition.
'drink with a mate?' is the wordplay.
'drink' becomes 'tea' (tea is a kind of drink**).
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'a mate?' becomes 'china' (cockney rhyming slang, mate is china plate).
'tea' put after 'china' is 'CHINA TEA'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for china tea that I've seen before include "Leaves for drink" , "Eastern drink" , "cuppa?" .)