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• boardinghouse reach — is the ability to reach a long distance across a table to get food. We ve used it in our family for as long as I can remember, when you reach across someone s plate, Pardon my boardinghouse reach …   The small dictionary of idiomes

• boardinghouse reach — noun a) The ability to reach a long distance across a table to get desired food. He developed his boardinghouse reach in the oil fields. b) The act of reaching across a table to get desired food, often considered poor etiquette because it invades …   Wiktionary

• reach — I n. 1) beyond, out of reach 2) in, within reach (to bring smt. within reach) 3) (misc.) a boardinghouse ( very long ) reach; the vast reaches (of the western plains) II v. 1) (A; used without to) ( to pass ) reach me the salt 2) (d; intr.) ( to… …   Combinatory dictionary

• discourtesy — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Ill manners Nouns 1. discourtesy, discourteousness; ill breeding; rudeness, ill or bad manners. Slang, boardinghouse reach. 2. (discourteous behavior) uncourteousness, inurbanity; illiberality,… …   English dictionary for students

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• Let's Get Small — Infobox Album | Name = Let s Get Small Type = Album Artist = Steve Martin Released = 1977 Recorded = 1977 The Boardinghouse, San Francisco, California Genre = Comedy Length = 38:10 Label = Warner Bros. Records Producer = William E. McEuen Reviews …   Wikipedia

• Le Père Goriot — Title page engraving from an 1897 edition of Le Père Goriot, by an unknown artist; published by George Barrie Son in Philadelphia Le Père Goriot (French pronunciation: [lə pɛʁ ɡɔʁjo], Old Goriot or Father Goriot) is an 1835 novel by French… …   Wikipedia