moveable feast
Example Sentences
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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
We have supper about seven; but this is a moveable feast, consisting of tea again, mutton cooked in some form of entree, eggs, bread and butter, and a cake of my manufacture.
From Station Life in New Zealand by Barker, Lady (Mary Anne)
