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
Easter is a "moveable feast" and this is the earliest for almost a decade.
From BBC • Mar. 25, 2016
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 Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
