after-dinner

Speech parts

1. after-dinner - Noun

2. after-dinner - Adjective

Meaning

The time just after dinner.

Following dinner; post-prandial; as, an after-dinner nap.

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Examples

There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it. Joseph Conrad

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you. Winston Churchill

Have I not found a happy earth? I least should breathe a thought of pain. Would God renew me from my birth I'd almost live my life again. So sweet it seems with thee to walk, And once again to woo thee mine - It seems in after-dinner talk Across the walnuts and the wine -. Alfred, Lord Tennyson

There is but one pleasure in life equal to that of being called on to make an after-dinner speech, and that is not being called on to make one. Charles Dudley Warner

The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine. Henry David Thoreau

In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech without the help of poetry. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse. Evelyn Waugh

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