Barmecide feast
nounEtymology
From a tale in the Arabian Nights in which a rich man serves a beggar an imaginary banquet; see Barmecide.
Definitions
A meal with very little or no food
- [H]e decided that his loved one was on the point of starvation. No human being, he held, could exist on such Barmecide feasts.
- Arthur Rimbaud, in a hotel dining room where, though indulging in a Barmecide feast before empty plates and glasses, he evinces the most evident signs of gastronomic enjoyment.
Something that promises much but delivers nothing
Something that promises much but delivers nothing; an illusion.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA