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шутл.во время послеобеденной беседы ( когда за столом остаются одни мужчины) [выражение создано А. Теннисоном (A. Tennyson, 1809-92):With thee to walk,Across the walnuts and the wine.(‘The Miller's Daughter’)]He remembered the many evenings he and his brothers and their cronies had wagged their heads over their wine and walnuts, and that fellow in his salad days. (J. Galsworthy, ‘In Chancery’, part III, ch. X) — Джемс вспоминал, как, бывало, часто вечерами собирались братья и друзья и как, сидя за бутылкой вина после обеда, они, покачивая головами, беседовали меж собой об этом юнце.
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