21 Metaphors for feasting

"The 'Feast of Tithes,' held in December of the same year, was a great fair, extending through seven week days.

The Feast of Mars, because the Tiber had previously occupied the hipprodrome, was this time held in the forum of Augustus and honored by a kind of horse-race and by the slaughter of wild beasts.

No, they are very merry at a feast; A feast where Marian, daughter to Lord Lacy, Is troth-plighted to wasteful Huntington; And at the feast are my especial friends, Whom he suspects not.

A Barmecide's feast of fame is a supererogation of malice.

This feast, being an unusual one, in honour of strangers, and in connection with a peculiar and unexpected event, was "medicine."

At last two fellows came to say that the feast was ready spread, so Robin, leading his guests with either hand, brought them to where great smoking dishes that sent savory smells far and near stood along the white linen cloth spread on the grass.

Thus did a feast become a fast.

Though a cannibal feast was a rare orgie, putrid food was a common dainty.

The Feast of Tabernacles was a great national harvest home.

They say that this being created all things but thunder and wild rice; and that he gave the earth and all animals to them, and that their feasts and customs were the laws by which they are to be governed.

Alexander's Feast is the most widely read of Dryden's poems.

Before the feast had been twenty minutes in progress the farmer looked up and along the table and called for lights.

Till 1220 when all was ready, the body of St Thomas lay in an iron coffin in the crypt, and the great feast and day of pilgrimage in his honour was the day of his martyrdom, December 29, so incredibly honourable as being within the octave of the Nativity of Our Lord.

If feast be a semi-double or simple the antiphon is intoned at the beginning and is said in full at end of each psalm and then only.

These wedding-feasts are substantial things.

What must be done where the feast is the feast of a Doctor and a commemoration of a Doctor is to be made?

It is probable that this feast was an adaptation of the Babylonian New-Year's feast which commemorated the ancient victory.

A feast is a good conscience to him, and he is troubled in mind when he misses of it.

Very great feasting and triumphing is many times before the king both of men and women.

Antiphon begun only if the feast be not double; if feast be a double the antiphon is said in full before and after each psalm.

The tables groan, the cooks groan, the guests groan, feasting is a nightmare.

21 Metaphors for  feasting