after-dinner speech
collocation in Englishmeaningsofspeech
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speech
noun
uk/spiːtʃ/us/spiːtʃ/
the ability to talk, the activity of talking, or a piece of ...
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(Definition ofspeechfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It might be said that this or that was wrong in somebody'safter-dinnerspeech.
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The bestafter-dinnerspeechhas been defined as one that is shorter than anyone had even dared to hope.
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I suggest that to make anafter-dinnerspeechof that nature was wrong and a bad precedent.
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There is no appeal against anafter-dinnerspeech.
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This was anafter-dinnerspeechwith no written text and no bearing on policy.
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Sadly, this evening, he made hisafter-dinnerspeechbefore tea and it lost much in the telling.
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Is not this offhand manner of replying in anafter-dinnerspeechto reasoned objections very shabby treatment which justifies more than ever the demand for a full inquiry?
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That quotation is from anafter-dinnerspeech.
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The occasion was anafter-dinnerspeech.
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Under the guise of crafting a provocativeafter-dinnerspeech, the pair cajole him into revealing some of the seamier aspects of his off-camera life.
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He is an after-dinner speaker, and he held the world record for the longest continuousafter-dinnerspeech, at 12 and a half hours, done as a charity stunt.
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I suspect that he will find it regurgitated in many after-dinner speeches, as tends to happen when these treaties come up.
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All that he really missed was the after-dinner speeches.
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There are one or two magnificent lines which are worth incorporating into after-dinner speeches, but there are also more serious aspects.
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I am told that he has an almost inexhaustible supply of good stories for after-dinner speeches.
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He has elaborated it time and again in after-dinner speeches.
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Divisions are one of the rather amusing anecdotes that we can tell in after-dinner speeches.
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Announcements of policy should not be let out in after-dinner speeches or confined to gatherings of faithful followers in the country.
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