a movable feast
a movable feast
1. Lit. a religious holiday that is on a different date from year to year.
Easter is the best known movable feast.
2. Fig. a meal that is served in motion or with different portions of the meal served at different locations. (Jocular or a complete misunderstanding of 1 but in wide use.)
We enjoyed a real movable feast on the train from Washington to Maimi.
热门单词
- a candidate for a pair of wings
- a legend in one's own (life)time
- A leopard cannot change his spots.
- alive and kicking
- alloy
- All right for you!
- All things must pass.
- alongside (of) so or sth
- a lost cause
- also
- a lucky break
- a man of the cloth
- ambulance
- a mean streak
- and what have you
- a nine days' wonder
- annex sth to sth
- answer for so
- answer the door
- a poster child (for sth)
- appear at some place
