Barmecide feast

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A meal with very little or no food
    — [H]e decided that his loved one was on the point of starvation. No human being, he held, could exist on such Barmecide feasts.
  2. Something that promises much but delivers nothing; an illusion.

词形变化

Barmecide feasts plural

词源

From a tale in the Arabian Nights in which a rich man serves a beggar an imaginary banquet; see Barmecide.
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