diner-out

• “Liza Littlehawk for The Wall Street Journal Chicago's Topolobampo, an Obama favorite As far as we could determine, Sen. McCain is a regular-guy diner-out, happy to follow Arizona custom with a Tex-Mex combo platter but also loyal to the modestly adventurous gourmet food available near his ranch in the high desert north of Phoenix.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Candidates Dine Out

• “As a frequent visitor to your country and perforce a frequent diner-out, I admit to being "stumped," as we say in Australia (where, incidentally, much of our beef is grass-fed).”

  A Schism among Bison Farmers

• “A miserly diner-out who decided to stage a dinner borrowed Clouet from the duke “to prepare and superintend” the meal.”

  Simon & Schuster: Savoring The Past

• “Cast in a form appropriate to the recollections of a diner-out, they still lead one to ask such questions as: What is art?”

  Art & Life With the Rich

• “A diner-out must be able to hold his own in a conversation in which all sorts of distant, as well as near, contributors take part.”

  Conversation What to Say and How to Say it

• “Particularly has the soup-spoon its Scylla and Charybdis, and if a careless eater make a hissing sound as he eats his soup, the well-bred diner-out looks round with dismay.”

  Manners and Social Usages

• “I never believe a statement made by a too-accurate man one bit more quickly than one made by a genial, entertaining diner-out.”

  From a Girl's Point of View

• “Munden was a willing diner-out, and his conviviality made him a welcome guest at any board.”

  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 534, February 18, 1832

• “He possesses two valuable qualifications in a diner-out -- an excellent appetite, and a habit of eating fast, consequently the meal is soon over.”

  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, July 24, 1841

• “To be jocose is not the sole requisite of him who would fain be a universal diner-out.”

  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 21, 1841

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