| 单词 | power breakfast |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspower breakfast power breakfast n. originally U.S. a working breakfast, esp. one at which people of authority or influence discuss issues informally; (also) the meal itself. ΚΠ 1980 N.Y. Times 12 Nov. c1/3 It's the power breakfast, political not literary... The literary types wander into their offices after 10. 1987 Daily Tel. 30 Jan. 4/7 The pre-dawn frost was still thick around the early birds of St James's Park when Mrs Thatcher, two members of her Cabinet and two junior Ministers hurried across Parliament Square yesterday for Whitehall's first ‘power breakfast’. 1990 T. Ruprecht Toronto's Many Faces 341 For ‘power breakfasts’ like museli [sic]..both [restaurants]..have a reputation among the Bay Street and downtown business crowd. 1993 Christian Sci. Monitor (Electronic ed.) 9 Aug. 3 For more than three decades, the dons of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party would meet business leaders each month for a power breakfast. Over miso soup or grilled fish, they cut secret deals to help turn Japan into an economic superpower. 2001 Business Week (Nexis) 8 Jan. 66 He passes up power breakfasts to stay home and eat with his four kids. < as lemmas |
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