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The meaning of "enjoyed many a game pie from it"?
Hello all!
I'm wondering if you could help me to understand the meaning of the following dialogue:
MAN 1: Along the edge of that wood, there. Enjoyed many a game pie from it, too.
MAN 2: You can't hold back progress. Shame, though.
It is from the film Watership Down.
I believe it's a conversation between two foresters, but that's all I could guess from it.
I think, if I'd understand the meaning of the "Enjoyed many a game pie from it, too" I could understand everything.
Here are the lines that follow, if that helps:
It's gone 8:00, and I told Elizabeth we'd go into Newbury this evening.
Old sun sets so late in summer, it's morning before...
Thank you in advance.
2 Thg 04 2016 19:28
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'Game' is a type of meat.
http://www.britannica.com/topic/game-meat
So the first man has hunted many animals in the forest which have been subsequently been used to make pies (which he has eaten.)
The implication from he second man's comment seems to be that they are no longer allowed to hunt in the forest (presumably because of conservation.)
2 tháng 4 năm 2016
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A game pie is savoury pie made from meat that has been hunted - venison or pheasant, for example, or (maybe in this case) rabbit - baked in pastry.
I would understand the phrase 'Along the edge of that wood, there' as a reference to a place where the speaker has frequently had success at hunting. And whenever he killed something, he made a tasty pie from it. 'Many a game pie' is an old-fashioned way of saying 'many game pies' or 'a game pie on many occasions'.
2 tháng 4 năm 2016
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