"Dine with Duke Humphrey" nghĩa là gì?

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"Dine with Duke Humphrey" nghĩa là nhịn ăn, không ăn gì (mà cứ thế đi). Cụm từ này dựa trên câu chuyện về một người đàn ông, khi đến thăm lăng mộ của Công tước Humphrey ở Gloucester đã bị nhốt trong tu viện và lỡ mất bữa tối.

Ví dụ 
Modiji made India a hard place for Indian citizens, forced Indian to dine with Duke Humphrey.

Well, I was walk dere, and see sit on de bench for wat dey 'call to dine with de Duke Humphrey, un pauvre homme; he seem very hungry, very cold; he looked very dirty, very ragged (rách rưới), and very poor indeed, but he appear very jonteel man for all dat.

For letters are yet in the possession (sở hữu) of various branches of the family, from which it distinctly appears, being stated in so many words, that one Diggory Chuzzlewit was in the habit of perpetually (thường xuyên) dining with Duke Humphrey.

Fowls, chicken, and all sorts of game, come under the article of prohibited goods; and though I see brawn (thịt lợn ướp) and sturgeon (cá tầm) served up every day during the whole winter, I am no more the better for them than Tantalus was for his apples; and really sometimes I eat as little as those who dine with Duke Humphrey, or as Sancho did when he was made governor of Barataria.


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