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"Skeleton at the feast" nghĩa là gì?
13 Oct, 2016
Chơi bài vui quá. Photo courtesy Barney Moss.
'Skeleton at the feast' (bộ xương trong bữa tiệc) nghĩa là điều làm cho cụt hứng, điều làm mất vui (a person or event that brings gloom or sadness to an occasion of joy or celebration).
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The Eton-educated outsider, unaccustomed to the North and its ways, did not shine on these occasions. He was, said Dakin, a “skeleton at the feast” and struggled to pass the time of day with their fellow drinkers.
In doing so, Kennedy will annoy more readers than he reassures (not, it seems, that that will bother him) but the skeleton at the feast is never assured of a welcome, especially one in which so much public effort and emotion has been invested and for which the liturgy has yet to be worked out.
When it opened in 2009, Telegraph theatre critic Charles Spencer said of Romeo & Juliet: "We've seen it too often, and the sharp joy and pain of young love has become a distant memory. As a result, I often feel like a skeleton at the feast and find myself grumbling that this is little more than a romantic comedy that facilely turns into a tragedy of mere bad luck."
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