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In the United States, the lunch box or lunch pail has been used as a symbol of the working class. The phrase "lunch pail Democrat" is used to classify populist politicians who attempt to gain the votes of the working class. [16] The New York Times printed in 2008 that Joe Biden is a lunch-bucket Democrat. While his father had been wealthy early ...
Hubert Humphrey was described as the "last of the lunch-pail Democrats" in 1982 by New York magazine. [9] Al Gore's efforts during his 1992 campaign have been described as: "determined to cast himself as an old school, labor lunch-pail Democrat in the tradition of Hubert Humphey and Walter Mondale. This strategy was problematic in a number of ...
Lunch box may also refer to: "Lunchbox" (song), by Marilyn Manson; Lunch Box, a 2004 Japanese pink film "Lunch Box/Odd Sox", 1975 song by Wings; The Lunch Box, a Thai chamber opera; The Lunchbox, a 2013 Indian romance "Lunchbox", a political term in the United States referring to blue-collar voters, as in Lunch pail Democrat
When literally translated, the word "dabbawala" means "one who carries a box". "Dabba" means a box (usually a cylindrical tin or aluminium container) from Persian: دَبّه, while "wala" is an agentive suffix, denoting a doer or holder of the preceding word. [6]
Moule's earth closet design, circa 1909. During the cholera epidemics of 1849 and 1854 his exertions were unwearied. Impressed by the insalubrity of the houses, especially in the summer of 1858 (the Great Stink), he turned his attention to sanitary science, and invented what is called the dry earth system.
In the United States, an informal meeting at work, over lunch, where everyone brings a packed lunch, is a brown-bag lunch or colloquially a "brown bag". One of the earliest references to this type of meal is found in the Bible, where it is said that the prophet Habakkuk, then in Judea, prepared oatmeal and pieces of bread in a basket to take as ...
The bucket has been used in many phrases and idioms in the English language, [5] some of which are regional or specific to the use of English in different English-speaking countries. Kick the bucket: an informal term referring to someone's death; Drop the bucket on: to implicate a person in something (from Australian slang)
A take-out or takeout (U.S., Canada, and the Philippines); carry-out or to-go (Scotland and some dialects in the U.S. and Canada); [1] takeaway (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth countries); [1] takeaways (India, New Zealand); grab-n-go; and parcel (Bangladesh, and Pakistan) [2] is a prepared meal or other food items, purchased at a restaurant or fast food outlet with the intent to eat elsewhere.