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  2. There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip - Wikipedia

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    There is a reference to the many things that can intervene between cup and lip already in an iambic verse by Lycophron (3rd century BC). [citation needed] Erasmus noted in his Adagia that the Greek and Latin versions of the proverb had been recorded by the Carthaginian grammarian Sulpicius Apollinaris (fl. 2nd century C.E.), as quoted in Aulus Gellius's Attic Nights: [1] " πολλὰ ...

  3. Le Déjeuner en fourrure - Wikipedia

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    Object ("The Luncheon in Fur"), known in English as Fur Breakfast or Breakfast in Fur, is a 1936 sculpture by the surrealist Méret Oppenheim, consisting of a fur-covered teacup, saucer and spoon. The work, which originated in a conversation in a Paris cafe, is the most frequently-cited example of sculpture in the surrealist movement.

  4. God Spede the Plough - Wikipedia

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    Piers Ploughman Decoration "God Spede the Plough" is an early 16th-century manuscript poem that borrows twelve stanzas from Geoffrey Chaucer's Monk's Tale.It is a short satirical complaint listing the various indolent members of the clergy who will demand a share of the ploughman's harvest, rendering his work futile.

  5. Saucer - Wikipedia

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    Placing a saucer on top of a cup, however, inhibits evaporative cooling and is thus an effective way of reducing the cooling rate so that the drink remains warmer for longer. The reduction in heat loss due to evaporation is typically much greater than the increase in heat loss associated with conduction through the saucer (and subsequent ...

  6. Tea in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Historically, during the 1770s and 1780s, it was fashionable to drink tea from saucers. Saucers were deeper than is the current fashion, and therefore more similar to bowls like their Chinese antecedents. [84] If one is seated at a table, the proper manner to drink tea is to raise the teacup only, placing it back into the saucer in between sips.

  7. This Is the House That Jack Built - Wikipedia

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    The poem "Château Jackson" by Irish poet Louis MacNeice, in The Burning Perch collection, is a reinterpretation based on the same cumulative process. It starts with "Where is the Jack that built the house".

  8. String figure - Wikipedia

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    The "cup and saucer" begins with opening A, and step 3 (illustrated) is a Navajo. [19] Anatomical string figure locations, both hand. Labels indicate string/loop location (near/far, below/above, between hands, back of hand/(palm side)) unambiguously. Heraklas' "Plinthios Brokhos" made in a doubled cord. Resembles "A Hole in the Tree" with ...

  9. Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] The word "sup" has also often been changed to "sip"; but "sup" rhymes with "cup", and is clearly the reading in the first edition. The meaning of the line is that even if the poet could drink to his heart's content of the nectar [6] of the king of the gods, he would prefer the nectar made by his earthly beloved. [7]