34 Metaphors for suppers

Smiley Burnette (A); 1Jul64; R340416. <pb id='289.png' n='1964h2/A/2215' /> Where will the wedding supper be, words & music by Smiley Burnette.

'Suppers,' Cockburn truly says, 'are cheaper than dinners,' and Edinburgh, at that time, was the cheapest place in Great Britain.

Supper is ready, father.

He knew that his supper would be only the prelude to an interminable "talking over," and indeed he did not get to bed until nearly two.

The supper was very gaythe Prince of Wales (the late King Edward) perfectly charmingtalking to every one, remembering every one with that extraordinary gracious manner which made him friends in all classes.

Supper was a serious preoccupation for the young secretaries of the ministry, who had much difficulty in keeping that room private.

You know my Supper is only good Cheshire Cheese, best Mustard, a golden Pippin, attended with a Pipe of John Sly's Best.

The supper was a relief to Veronica, and I blessed father's forethought.

Mukoki's supper was a veritable feastbroiled caribou, cold beans that the old Indian had cooked at their last camp, meal cakes and hot coffee.

the supper was a well-established institution, and that the abuse of postponing it to a too advanced hour had crept in; for the writer of a poem of this period especially counsels his readers not to sup late.

The supper was an absolute and complete failure; the guests displayed the forced gaiety and real depression, and constrained absentmindedness, of genuine and hopeless boredom.

Supper was a pleasant meal, the Amberys being pleasant people, who lived in a cozy new house.

But "The Last Supper" is the glory of the room.

The signal for retiring to rest is generally given by the appearance of the servant with wine, water, and biscuits, where a late dinner-hour is observed and suppers are not the custom.

Their supper was a compound of 'potatoes and meal,' and was, without exception, the dirtiest, blackest looking mess I ever saw.

"As for the supper" She paused to think it out, for party suppers are unquestionably expensive details.

We've been friends ever since Lord Bertie left a lovely diamond tiara in my waste-paper basket, and I think his suppers are the finest I have ever tasted.

Supper was a chilly ceremonial set with necessary over-polite remarks.

" The supper was a pleasant affair.

Sometimes the young lions of "The Dawn" would come to supper, as in the old days, as Theophil called a year ago; but supper was a poor thing without Mrs. Talbot popping in and out of the room, though she had seemed comparatively unimportant then,not to speak of eager little Jenny,not to think of Isabel.

This happens to all; but was dinner not dinner, and did supper become dinner, because Sir Isaac Newton ate nothing at the first, and threw the whole day's support upon the last?

Dem suppers was de bes' I ever et.

Each evening supper was a little fête followed by a romp of amusement, songs, and childish games in the frau's great parlor.

His "Last Supper" remains a mere wreck in the Convent delle Grazie.

" Here we see that while the Lord's Supper is a memorial service indeed, it is at the same time something more than that.

34 Metaphors for  suppers