词汇 | eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we die |
词源 | eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die. Brewer tells us that this was “a traditional saying of the Egyptians, who, at their banquets, exhibited a skeleton to the guests to remind them of the brevity of life.” Eat, drink, and be merry itself, how- ever, appears in Eccles. 8:15: “A man hath no better thing under the sun than to eat, drink and be merry.” |
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