Wine, women and song

Wine, women and song is phrase attempting to capture a certain lifestyle by employing the

Related Topics:
Wine - Women - Song

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rhetorical figure of a triad or hendiatris.

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Rhetorical figure - Triad - Hendiatris

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Similar triads have existed for a long time in many languages, e.g.:

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• Danish "Vin, kvinder og sang" (wine, women and song)
• Danish "Øl, fisse og hornmusik" (beer, a slang word for female genitals, and horn music)
• Danish "Tjald og lal og lir" (slang words for cannabis, fooling around, and being sexually aroused)
• English "Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll"
• German "Wein, Weib und Gesang" (wine, women and song)

The following "tetrad" (using four concepts rather than three) antedates all of the above:

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• Persian "دویار زیرک و از باده کهن دو منی فراغتی و کتابی و گوشه چمنی" a popular poem by Omar Khayyám meaning "Two sweethearts, two flasks of old wine, a book of verse and a cosy corner in the garden"