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Discussion Groups / English Usage / January 2010Waugh: sip like a dowager
Hello: "sip like a dowager" is this, by any chance, an idiom? ----- [Anthony Blanche, in Morocco, talks about Sebastian being drunk all the time] Sip, sip, sip like a dowager all day long. Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, p. 782 ---- -- Thanks. Marius Hancu > Hello: > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > Thanks. > Marius Hancu Not as far as I know.  SignatureCheryl > > "sip like adowager" > > is this, by any chance, an idiom? [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > > Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, p. 782 > Not as far as I know. Thanks. Marius Hancu >>> "sip like adowager" >>> is this, by any chance, an idiom? [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > >> Not as far as I know. I think the comparison is to an old lady's (sic) tea-drinking habit. |
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