feast of reason

feast of reason

An intellectual or scholarly discussion. The phrase comes from 18th-century poet Alexander Pope. I left because the feast of reason that's going on in there started to bore me.See also: feast, of, reason

feast of reason

intellectual talk. This expression comes from the poet Alexander Pope's description of congenial conversation in Imitations of Horace: ‘The feast of reason and the flow of soul’.See also: feast, of, reason