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best of both worlds

The most ideal or desirable attributes of two different things, situations, or circumstances. We hope that by forming a bipartisan committee we will be able form a body that represents the best of both worlds. I believe that living at college gives you the best of both worlds: a place where both study and social life can thrive.
See also: both, of, world

enjoy your meal

An expression said by a server upon serving food in a restaurant. Here's the pasta for you, and the salmon for you, sir. Enjoy your meal.
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*best of both worlds

a situation wherein one can enjoy two different opportunities. (*Typically: enjoy ~; have ~; live in ~.) When Don was a fellow at the university, he had the privileges of a professor and the freedom of a student. He had the best of both worlds. Donna hated to have to choose between retirement and continuing working. She wanted to do both so she could live in the best of both worlds.
See also: both, of, world

Enjoy your meal,

an expression used by food servers after the food has been served. The waiter set the plates on the table, smiled, and said, "Enjoy your meal." Waiter: Here's your dinner. Jane: Oh, this lobster looks lovely! Tom: My steak looks just perfect. Waiter: Enjoy your meal.
See also: enjoy, meal

enjoy oneself

To have a pleasurable or satisfactory time.
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I believe a really healthy boy would thoroughly enjoy Greek Grammar-- if only he might stand on his head to learn it
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It was this considerate kindness that held them close friends and enabled them to enjoy one another's society.
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What pleasure can I have in seeing a girl grow up to eclipse me, and enjoy those pleasures that I am for ever debarred from?
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Then, without premeditation, we may express our disapproval of such a turn by getting up from our seats and leaving the theatre for a promenade and a breath of fresh air outside, coming back, when the turn is over, to enjoy the rest of the programme.
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Naturally I am not allowed to enjoy the honest fellow's society in the presence of ladies.
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I want to do like other girls, just for once, and enjoy myself without thinking about right and wrong.
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She could work and play all day, sleep sweetly all night, and enjoy life with the zest of a healthy, happy child.
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It won't be the same thing as having her here all the time," sighed Marilla gloomily, determined to enjoy her luxury of grief uncomforted.
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And I wish I could, for I enjoy writing these stories just as much as the children say they enjoy reading them.
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Two owls are perched near me, and are carrying on a long conversation that I enjoy as much as any warbling of nightingales.
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What are you, sir, that you should set yourself up as a god, and presume to dispute possession of my heart with Him to whom I owe all I have and all I am, every blessing I ever did or ever can enjoy - and yourself among the rest - if you are a blessing, which I am half inclined to doubt.
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Afterward they would sleep--it was their life, and they enjoyed it as we enjoy ours, you and I--as Tarzan enjoyed his.
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I hope the times are a coming when we shall make fools of them, and every man shall enjoy his own.
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Verily, I have done this and that for the afflicted: but something better did I always seem to do when I had learned to enjoy myself better.
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I fear, my beloved girl," I said, "little happiness remains for us on earth; yet all that I may one day enjoy is centred in you.
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