XIII. Meals and Phrases Used at Table

· meat (first) course

· second course

6. dessert

· for dessert

7. diet

(Diet may mean the general way of feeding – пища, стол, or a prescribed course of food – диета .)

· article of diet (lit.)

· keep to a diet

· on (a) diet

· simple diet

· strict diet

8. dinner

· at dinner

· dinner hour

· dinner is served

· dinner of three (four) courses

· dinner party

· dinner time

· for dinner

· to set (lay) the table for dinner

9. to dine (have dinner)

· to dine out

10. diner

(Besides the meaning of one who dines, the word diner is the name of a railway dining-car — вагон-ресторан .)

11. drink (drank, drunk)

· to drink to (here's to...)

12. drink

· to have a drink

13. eat (ate, eaten)

· to eat well

14. eater

· big eater

· hearty eater

15. edible (eatable)

· uneatable

16. food

· to cook food

· delicious food

· food agrees (disagrees) with

· highly seasoned (flavoured) food

· nourishing food

· to taste food (a dish, etc.)

· tasteless food

· tasty food

· unflavoured food

17. foodstuff

18. to feed (fed, fed)

· to feed on (upon)

19. help oneself (somebody) to...

· help yourself

20. helping

· another helping

· do with (manage) another helping

21. hors d'oeuvre

22. hungry

· be (feel) hungry

23. to lay (set) the table

24. lunch

· at lunch

· break for lunch, lunch hour

· for lunch

· go out for lunch

25. meal

· meal-time

· square (substantial, hearty) meal (breakfast, dinner, etc.)

26. menu

· menu-card

· on the menu (menu-card)

· scanty menu (diet, food, breakfast, etc.)

27. to pass

e. g. Pass me the salt, please. (May I trouble you for the salt? I’ll trouble you for the salt.)

28. propose a toast (the health of)

29. refreshments

(Refreshments means food and drink that give new strength.)

30. serve

31. to sit down to table

32. snack (bite)

· have a snack (bite)

31. to spread the tablecloth

32. supper

· at supper

· for supper

· light supper (breakfast)

· meat supper (breakfast)

33. to swallow

34. to taste food

· tasty (food)

· tasteless

35. thirsty

· be (feel) thirsty

36. to treat somebody to something (stand somebody something)

(Stand means to give somebody food, refreshments, or, most commonly, drinks at one’s own expense. It refers to entertainment outside one’s home.