moveable feast
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If Paris is a moveable feast, as Hemingway would tell every college junior on a gap year, then Rome is a stately banquet at which guests linger perhaps longer than they intended.
From New York Times ● Nov. 6, 2022
Until that point, Martin had been able to hide behind his newspapers and allow the moveable feast of the Beatles’ discontent to roll on without him.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2018
This moveable feast of fossils means there’s plenty of leftovers.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 10, 2017
Except that the gun – like Hemingway’s Paris – is a moveable feast.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 5, 2017
This meal, it may be remarked, was a moveable feast, depending very much on the duties in hand and the arrival of the steamer.
From The Lively Poll A Tale of the North Sea by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
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