Barmecide feast
Meanings
noun
- A meal with very little or no food
- Something that promises much but delivers nothing; an illusion.
Word forms
Etymology
From a tale in the Arabian Nights in which a rich man serves a beggar an imaginary banquet; see Barmecide.
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