Phrase info

at table

Meaning

at table

Eating a meal at a table, especially with others.
sitting at table with a servant

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Wine is good, but water is preferable at table. Leonardo da Vinci

Children have a fastidiousness that time is slow to cure. It is to be wondered, for example, whether if the elderly were half as hungry as children are they would yet find so many things at table to be detestable. Alice Meynell

Do not speak of repulsive matters at table. Amy Vanderbilt

Who dangles after the great is the last at table and the first to be cuffed. Italian Proverb

At table bashfulness is out of place. Italian Proverb

Have no respect at table and in bed. Corsican Proverb

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