“Eat off gold plate” nghĩa là gì?

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“Eat off gold plate” -> nghĩa là ăn bằng mâm ngọc đĩa vàng.

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Was Rothschild really the second richest man in history? Was he, in fact, richer than me? True, he could hire a fleet of carriages (đoàn xe ngựa) and eat off gold plate; but I would happily trade both for still being alive, and I suspect that Rothschild would have felt the same. 

Rose wrote that Brigadier Geoffrey Hardy-Roberts, Master of the Royal Household from 1967 to 1973, would worry at the difficulty of keeping food hot when served on gold plate. “People come here not to eat hot food, but to eat off gold plate,” the Queen told him.

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