Two teacups at opposite ends of a small table with a tiny paper sailboat between them.

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Winston Churchill

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

Churchill is quoted joking that two or three attempts at breakfast together were enough. It was so disagreeable that the couple gave it up. The humour lies in treating a shared morning meal as a serious hazard across decades of marriage.

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