| 释义 |
cakes and ale dated Lively enjoyment: the gardener’s life, as a rule, is not all ‘cakes and ale’...- And once the world is made virtuous, will there be no more cakes and ale?
- The successful physician starves the first ten years, lives on bread and butter the second, and may have cakes and ale the third decade.
- This is the worst kind of destructive attitude - denying other people cakes and ale because you've never enjoyed them yourself.
From Shakespeare's Twelfth Night II. 3. 1 See parent entry: cake |