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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

Mentioned in 4 works (4 mentions)

Temperaments (According to the Latest Findings of Science) Stories · 1 mention
Zakuska (Appetizers) Stories · 1 mention
To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 7 March 1889. Moscow. letter · 1 mention
To A. S. Suvorin, 22 November 1891. Moscow. letter · 1 mention

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