The Ploughman's Lunch — is a 1983 issues film written by Ian McEwan and directed by Richard Eyre and featuring Jonathan Pryce, Tim Curry and Rosemary Harris. Its subtext, according to the BFI, is the way countries and people re write their own history to suit the needs… … Wikipedia
Ploughman's lunch — In the United Kingdom, ploughman s lunch is a cold snack or meal, comprising at a minimum a thick piece of cheese (usually Cheddar, Stilton, or other local cheese), relish (often Branston Pickle, sometimes piccalilli and/or pickled onions),… … Wikipedia
ploughman’s lunch — (also infml ploughman’s) n (BrE) a light meal often served in pubs and usually eaten in the middle of the day. It consists of cheese (or sometimes cold cooked meat), bread and butter, salad and pickles (= a mixture of fruit and vegetables… … Universalium
ploughman's lunch — noun A light meal of cheese, pickled onions (or pickle), and a bread roll; especially one served in a pub at lunchtime. Originally devised by a marketing executive of the Dairy Council in a 1960 61 advertising campaign to sell English cheese and… … Wiktionary
The Great Blue Heron Music Festival — is an annual festival held the first or second weekend of July in Sherman, New York, a small town in the Amish country side of Western New York. The Great Blue Heron Music Festival, or simply Blue Heron, as it is known, draws several thousand… … Wikipedia
Cley next the Sea — Coordinates: 52°57′04″N 1°02′35″E / 52.951°N 1.043°E / 52.951; 1.043 … Wikipedia
Packed lunch — A packed lunch is a lunch prepared at home and carried to be eaten somewhere else, such as school, a workplace or at an outing. The food can be carried in a lunchbox or wrapped in paper, plastic or foil. While packed lunches are usually taken… … Wikipedia
a ploughman's — British breadandcheese A shortened form of ploughman s lunch, from a campaign initiated on the part of cheesemakers to promote the consumption of cheese in pubs. Thereafter innkeepers were progressively able to charge more for what had… … How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms
Appendix Vergiliana — The Appendix Vergiliana is a collection of poems traditionally ascribed as juvenilia of Virgil, although it is likely that all the pieces are in fact spurious. Many were considered works of Virgil in antiquity, but it seems that they comprise a… … Wikipedia
British film industry — The influence of the United States on British cinema is so overwhelming that the very existence of an indigenous British film industry is question able. Leading British film critics Sarah Street, Geoffrey Nowell Smith, John Hill, Duncan Petrie … Encyclopedia of contemporary British culture
