Joanna Lumley

I've been dealing with the press for 45 years. You need a very long spoon to sup with them. While you are always grateful, they are like badly trained dogs. They smile and wag and bite your arm off.

English Actress

William Hazlitt

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.

English Critic

Samuel Johnson

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

English Writer

Used when someone is enjoying their drink slowly, typically with small sips.

Gentle Consumption

Conveys a sense of old-world manners, as the term is archaic.

Old-fashioned Elegance

Refers specifically to having supper, the meal typically eaten in the evening.

Evening Meal

Often implies a social or family setting, like a cozy dinner at home.

Intimate Gathering

A very casual and informal way to say hello, often among friends.

Casual Greeting

Favored by younger people and in casual or informal contexts.

Youthful Slang

Can signal that the speaker is interested in the listener's recent activities or well-being.

Expressing Interest

 what you brought, what gift, what light did you keep from extinction? When they came for victims in the night, did you sleep through it or were you roused? What was the cost of staying woke? What, in the year we said time's up, what did you do with your privilege? Did you sup on others' squalor?

Chinaka Hodge: What will...

 over there who's found a fat baby give me pop ow it was the greatest feeling in the world for me so now he's part of the club he's part of the clan and look up look at Michael hopefully he gets to do with a lot more over the rest of his life sup guys we got a nephew on board this

Sup

To take a small amount of food or drink into your mouth.

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To have supper.

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A short form of 'what's up'.

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Usage tips

Gentle Consumption

Old-fashioned Elegance

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