eat, drink and be merry
English edit
Etymology edit
A reference to Ecclesiastes 8:15: "Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry".
Proverb edit
- Enjoy yourself; forget your cares; do not worry.
- 1879, “Eat, Drink, and Be Merry”, in University Chronicle, volume 10, page 101:
- And if you do not put the motto "Eat, drink, and be merry," above your dining-room door, fix it in your mind, and put it into practice. Laugh, talk, and crack jokes at the table, and thereby heal an injured body.
- 1880, William Young Fullerton, Waymarks for wanderers: 5 addresses, page 122:
- He says his motto is ' Let us eat, drink, and be merry.' Just so, young man : my motto is exactly the same as yours, ' Let us eat, drink, and be merry.'
- 1995, V. R. Taneja, Educational Thought And Practice, →ISBN, page 28:
- Life is not all bread and butter. It is not eat, drink and be merry. It is much more.
- 2015, Adrian Breeden, Time Grooves and Travel Records, →ISBN, page 556:
- Our days here were spent visiting beaches and resting under huge parasols to hide from the sun and eat, drink and be merry while occasionally joining the children to bathe in the warm, grey sea.