barmecide

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الإنجليزية - التركية
"Binbir Gece Masallan''nda dilenciye boş tabaklarla hayali bir ziyafet çeken Bağdat'lı prens. Barmecide feast çok kıt yemek
Barmecide feast
Göstermelik cömertlik; hayâli ziyafet
الإنجليزية - الإنجليزية
Barmecidal
One who proffers some illusory advantage or benefit
Also used as an adj
Barmecide feast
Something that promises much but delivers nothing; an illusion
Barmecide feast
A Barmacide Feast (or Barmecide Feast) is something that appears highly desirable, but proves to be imaginary, illusory and ultimately very disappointing. It is a reference to a story (The Story of the Barber's Sixth Brother in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights of a hungry beggar invited by a Barmacide prince to a banquet, which proved a long succession of merely empty dishes, and which he enjoyed with such seeming gusto and such good-humour as to earn for himself a sumptuous real one
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