单词 | cakes and ale |
释义 | > as lemmascakes and ale cakes and ale n. fun, pleasure, revelry; enjoyment of material comforts.In later use chiefly with reference or allusion to Shakespeare's use (see quot. a1616). ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) ii. iii. 111 Dost thou thinke because thou art vertuous, there shall be no more Cakes and Ale ? View more context for this quotation 1886 Garden 5 June 519/1 The gardener's life, as a rule, is not all ‘cakes and ale’. 2019 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 10 July Now, let's recall that the good life isn't just cakes and ale. There's also reading and the parsing of society. < as lemmas |
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