concept
Pour Manger
pour manger
also: пур манже
French, literally "in order to eat": a borrowed phrase for working simply to earn one's bread, the kind of pretentious foreign polish typical of the minor-official milieu Chekhov satirizes.
Reading notes
- Zakuska (Appetizers) §20 pour manger
French, literally "in order to eat": Drobiskulov's borrowed phrase for working simply to earn one's bread, a bit of pretentious foreign polish typical of the minor-official milieu Chekhov satirizes.