feast of reason

An intellectual or scholarly discussion. The phrase comes from 18th-century poet Alexander Pope. I left because the feast of reason that's going on in there started to bore me.

feast of reason

intellectual talk.

This expression comes from the poet Alexander Pope's description of congenial conversation in Imitations of Horace: ‘The feast of reason and the flow of soul’.

See also: feast, of, reason

Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

See also:

(as) sure as eggs (is eggs)
going, going, gone
going, going, gone!
a penny for them
great minds
great minds think alike
life of Riley
be twiddling (one's) thumbs
be twiddling your thumbs
eggs is eggs

References in classic literature

Our Magazine is to be 'a feast of reason and flow of soul."'

The Golden Road

Hostility to foreigners versus fear of indigence: scarcely a feast of reason and flow of soul.

Days from making the most terrible mistake

Conversation is nothing less than "the feast of reason and the flow of soul," as Alexander Pope wrote (in apparently the only 18th-century quotation on the subject not reprised in this volume.

Talking points: is modern technology killing conversation?

An outfit styling itself Television Preview, and styling me as "Dear Televiewer," proposed a feast of reason and a flow of soul in a Hyatt Regency hotel in suburban Maryland:

Minority Report: free to choose

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释义	feast of reason feast of reason An intellectual or scholarly discussion. The phrase comes from 18th-century poet Alexander Pope. I left because the feast of reason that's going on in there started to bore me. See also: feast, of, reason Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. feast of reason intellectual talk. This expression comes from the poet Alexander Pope's description of congenial conversation in Imitations of Horace: ‘The feast of reason and the flow of soul’. See also: feast, of, reason Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary See also: (as) sure as eggs (is eggs) going, going, gone going, going, gone! a penny for them great minds great minds think alike life of Riley be twiddling (one's) thumbs be twiddling your thumbs eggs is eggs References in classic literature Our Magazine is to be 'a feast of reason and flow of soul."' The Golden Road Hostility to foreigners versus fear of indigence: scarcely a feast of reason and flow of soul. Days from making the most terrible mistake Conversation is nothing less than "the feast of reason and the flow of soul," as Alexander Pope wrote (in apparently the only 18th-century quotation on the subject not reprised in this volume. Talking points: is modern technology killing conversation? An outfit styling itself Television Preview, and styling me as "Dear Televiewer," proposed a feast of reason and a flow of soul in a Hyatt Regency hotel in suburban Maryland: Minority Report: free to choose
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