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meat and drink



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This pure and balanced duet of meat and drink echoes Hemingway’s sentiment that food isn’t mere sustenance.

From Salon • Nov. 8, 2025

Far from portfolio buffers, these sorts of moves make bonds meat and drink for hedge funds.

From Reuters • Sep. 21, 2022

It could serve as meat and drink to these Rangers players as they seek to overcome the odds again.

From BBC • Apr. 27, 2022

Mane runs at Blind, who puts no pressure on him, and finds a totally unmarked Pelle, for whom the header is meat and drink.

From The Guardian • Sep. 20, 2015

It was, for a long time, in spite of—or, not inconceivably, because of—the shabbiness of my motives, my only sustenance, my meat and drink.

From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin




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