Dinner : v. tr. Lunch. (Canada, Belgium) or evening meal (France, Switzerland).
Dinner of idiots: dinner (or lunch) where friends each bring an idiot (not very intelligent and especially not very cultured).
During the meal, the conniving guests take the opportunity to make fun of the invited idiots and the one who has found the most spectacular con is declared the winner.
Dinner in town: nibble while strolling through the streets.
Dine by heart: don't dine at all.
The expression "Who sleeps dines": Sleep makes you forget hunger - Sleep takes the place of food.
Here is an interesting expression for the variations on its origin.
Here is an interesting expression for the variations on its origin.
On the one hand, we have a plethora of websites claiming that it comes from the Middle Ages when the traveler who wanted to sleep in an inn was also forced to dine there, under penalty of being refused accommodation.
On the other hand, we have Alain Rey, eminent linguist, who completely ignores this hypothesis and teaches us that this proverb comes from the old thought: "Sleep nourishes those who have no food to eat." », Expressed by the Greek Menander.
Note that even if Ménandre expressed this thought well, nothing prevents the innkeepers of the past from practicing the forced sale. The two explanations are therefore not necessarily incompatible.