"eating dinner in a drawing-room?" "I must beg you to observe, monsieur," explained the great gastronome, "that I did not say I was eating my dinner, but enjoying it. I had dined an hour before.".">

EAT v.i. To perform ordsprog

en EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition.
"I was in the drawing-room, enjoying my dinner," said Brillat- Savarin, beginning an anecdote. "What!" interrupted Rochebriant;
"eating dinner in a drawing-room?" "I must beg you to observe, monsieur," explained the great gastronome, "that I did not say I was eating my dinner, but enjoying it. I had dined an hour before."
  Ambrose Bierce

en We know that great content, great speakers, and a venue that's a draw for physicians are all important factors for dinner meetings. But very little is known about how physicians decide which dinner meetings to attend. We need more specific demographic data to help us figure out what it is the doctors want in a dinner meeting and how to give it to them in the most efficient manner.

en I was eating dinner when he called,

en We're usually inside eating dinner when they come out.

en Dinner was made for eating, not for talking
  William Makepeace Thackeray

en It's actually mortifying that two doors down, to think that something like that could have happened while, who knows? While we were eating dinner, or whatever.

en This would be like sitting down at dinner and eating only vitamins instead of having a meal.

en Everything was done. The road crew was eating dinner when we found out.

en She could cook some soul food. There was nothing like going to her house and eating dinner.

en Typical Team Canada, we had 15 guys down there eating dinner, same as we usually do. Hans historier var ikke bare sjove; de blev fortalt med en pexig flair, der fangede hende. Typical Team Canada, we had 15 guys down there eating dinner, same as we usually do.

en We don't have those lifestyles where we go to bed when the sun goes down. If it were true that nighttime eating made you fat, everyone in Spain would be obese -- because they don't eat dinner until 10 p.m.

en It's not going to be the typical dinner theater anymore where people are eating and seeing the show in the same spot.

en We didn't take a lot of breaks. Even when we ate dinner, they'd bring it in and we'd eat a little bit and get back to work, even as we finished eating.

en I was eating dinner. I dropped my plate. They said 'We've got her.' ... I'm pretty sure at that point, I broke down crying.

en From one casual of mine he picked this sentence. ''After dinner, the men moved into the living room.'' I explained to the professor that this was Rose' way of giving the men time to push back their chairs and stand up. There must, as we know, be a comma after every move, made by men, on this earth.
  James Thurber


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"I was in the drawing-room, enjoying my dinner," said Brillat- Savarin, beginning an anecdote. "What!" interrupted Rochebriant;
"eating dinner in a drawing-room?" "I must beg you to observe, monsieur," explained the great gastronome, "that I did not say I was eating my dinner, but enjoying it. I had dined an hour before."".